Quotes About Risk

It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hours' bombardment unscathed. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Jeder Soldat bleibt nur durch tausend Zufälle am Leben. Und jeder Soldat glaubt und vertraut dem Zufall

Safe in his cage,' she repeated. 'Who wants to be safe in a cage?

Sasprindzin?jums bija izzudis, un vi?š jut?s k? cilv?ks, kurš pavisam nejauši uzdrošin?jies uzk?pt uz pl?na ledus un sev par lielu p?rsteigumu redz, ka tas nel?st. Vi?š zina, ka tas ir pl?ns un ka ilgi varb?t neiztur?s, bet pašlaik tas tur, un ar to pietiek.

Fear lent me wings. - Godfrey

If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.

After noting that Germany's submarine campaign had sharply reduced traffic from America, Churchill told Runciman: "For our part, we want the traffic—the more the better; and if some of it gets into trouble, better still.

German U-boats were sinking ships at such a high rate that Admiralty officials secretly predicted Britain would be forced to capitulate by November 1, 1917. During the worst month, April, any ship leaving Britain had a one-in-four chance of being sunk. In

Asked later how this feat had been achieved, Morton answered, "If you had to jump six or seven feet, or certainly drown, it is surprising what 'a hell of a long way' even older people can jump.

After noting that Germany's submarine campaign had sharply reduced traffic from America, Churchill told Runciman: "For our part, we want the traffic—the more the better; and if some of it gets into trouble, better

of mounting threat.

Insane was letting an opportunity pass you by. Insane was debating so long over what you wanted that it disappeared.

I'd pull your pants down and let you ride me right here.

You hear a lot about people who are afraid to die. Well, they're nothing compared to the ones who are afraid to live—people who go through life just making motions—and conventional motions at that.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

freedom is dangerous. If you follow it too willingly it threatens to pull you into the air; if you give it up too wholly, you become a prisoner of necessity. The safest thing is to toe the mark of what is socially possible.

Breakdown occurs either because of too much possibility or too little; philistinism, as we observed earlier, knows its real enemy and tries to play it safe with freedom.

To escape from fire men will plunge into boiling water.

You knew, Monsieur Carrados, reiterated Dompierre, and yet you ventured here. You are either a fool or a hero. An enthusiast—it is the same thing as both, interposed the lady.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.