Quotes About Risk

Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.

His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.

The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the 'Oh how banal.'

I'm more worried about you," she said. "You and trouble..." "yeah." She heard the smile in his voice. "We're like that.

And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.

Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

A fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.

race—but over the course of the year, as the uncertainty grows, his odds of mishap increase.

Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.

Thrown into a vast open sea with no navigation charts and all the marker buoys sunk and barely visible, we have only two choices left: we may rejoice in the breath-taking vistas of new discoveries -- or we may tremble out of fear of drowning.

En otras palabras, el amor no encuentra su sentido en el ansia de cosas ya hechas, completas y terminadas, sino en el impulso de participar en la construcción de esas cosas. El amor está muy cercano a la trascendencia; es tan sólo otro nombre de impulso creativo, y por lo tanto, está cargado de riesgos, ya que toda creación ignora siempre cuál será su producto final

El amor es un préstamo hipotecario a cuenta de un futuro incierto e inescrutable.

El amor está muy cercano a la trascendencia; es tan sólo otro nombre del impulso creativo y, por lo tanto, está cargado de riesgos, ya que toda creación ignora siempre cuál será su producto final.

el amor no encuentra su sentido en el ansia de cosas ya hechas, completas y terminadas, sino en el impulso a participar en la construcción de esas cosas. El amor está muy cercano a la trascendencia; es tan sólo otro nombre del impulso creativo y, por lo tanto, está cargado de riesgos, ya que toda creación ignora siempre cuál será su producto final.

cuando uno patina sobre hielo fino, la salvación es la velocidad. Cuando

Living under liquid modern conditions can be compared to walking in a minefield: everyone knows an explosion might happen at any moment and in any place, but no one knows when the moment will come and where the place will be.

Invertir sentimientos profundos en la relación y jurar fidelidad implica correr un enorme riesgo: eso lo convierte a usted en alguien dependiente de su pareja (aunque señalemos que la dependencia —que rápidamente ha cobrado un matiz peyorativo— es la base de la responsabilidad moral hacia el Otro, tanto para Lögstrup como para Levinas).

In other words, it is not in craving after ready-made, complete and finished things that love finds its meaning ? but in the urge to participate in the becoming of such things. Love is akin to transcendence; it is but another name for creative drive and as such is fraught with risks, as all creation is never sure where it is going to end.

All that blood and...stuff. Me, I'll take intelligent cowardice over foolhardy bravery any day