Quotes About Risk

Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.

There is no safer. There's not even safe, never has been.

I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland.

Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared.

I stand on the edge of a cliff, wondering if I'm going to fall or jump.

I dare you to punch me, I said. You? Dare me? He was laughing too hard to say anything else. I shove him. I double-dare you. If you don't have the guts to do it, you're a weenie. I shove again, harder. If you do, you're an even bigger weenie because it's harder to take a punch than to give one.

You can only be brave if you're scared.

one might say that my entire life has been a wager against chance—

They've transformed the weather into some sort of celestial crap game.

And was there anything on earth as dangerous as getting everything you ever wanted? As

It's an even money that your Diners' Club card will be good at the decent cathouses.

Death and life are both simply the hazards of a chance which cannot be averted

Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

No one wants to fail. So most of us don't even try. Sad. We don't even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.