Quotes About Risk

And like everybody else in the world, his heart lodged in his throat and tried to choke him when he saw Mackey Sanders scampering along the top of the giant amplifier. But when he saw Mackey fall off, it threatened to stop.

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Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the closet and of course Mom wouldn't leave, so I finally had to pretend to get sick to my stomach just to get her out of the room long enough for him to climb out the window and down the tree. He fell, broke his leg. Ah, to be young again.

If you don't do something because it might get wrong, you'll never do anything.

Never play cards with a man called Doc.

The twentieth century contributed skyscrapers and typewriters and automobiles and telephones to the world. Solid, workable objects. Every innovation of the twenty-first century could be erased by a power failure.

A poisonous seed will only kill you if you chew it and swallow.

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.

Holy Week is a time to think about risk, because that's what this whole Passion narrative represents.

The Triumphal Entry cannot be separated from the cross, and the cross cannot be separated from the call of justice. And that call cannot be separated from risk, personal, professional, permanent.

Don't trust two; your ex and the market

taking risks is the religion I profess after Islam

I see the cliff's edge drawing nearer. I must jump or I will fall.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

Contraviniendo consejos abrí el balcón de la sala, solo para oler la cercanía del bosque. Para mi nunca seria peligroso. Pese a las advertencias recibidas, el bosque seguia siendo en mi imaginación y en mis sentimientos el único mundo habitable.

Cowards dare others to do what they themselves do not dare to do.

For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with.... The existence of banks with single digit amounts of equity is a completely unhealthy existence -- that is not only a risk for the banks, but for all of us.

Borrowing can be addictive, especially if the borrower benefits from guarantees.