Quotes About Risk

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

He bowed at the dark, straightened, tossed his hat over his shoulder, and, carrying the muleta in his left hand and the sword in his right, walked out toward the bull.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO I never carry a gun. With my luck, if i carried a gun I would be hanged ten times a year.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

A töprengés éppoly veszedelmes, mint a félelem.

For a man to take it at thirty-four as a guide-book to what life holds is about as safe as it would be for a man of the same age to enter Wall Street direct from a French convent, equipped with a complete set of the more practical Alger books.

I even read aloud the part of the novel that I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him as a writer than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO You like music? How would I not

No one lives his whole life besides toreadors.

I don't think if people gambled for what they could afford it would be very interesting.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?

There is a time to break all your rules. Maybe not all.

a brave man is always frightened three times by a lion; when he first sees his track, when he first hears him roar and when he first confronts him.

And now this life that she had built again was coming to a term because he had not used iodine two weeks ago when a thorn had scratched his knee as they moved forward trying to photograph a herd of waterbuck standing, their heads up, peering while their nostrils searched the air, their ears spread wide to hear the first noise that would send them rushing into the bush.

In the danger there is certainty in the knowledge of what kind of options to use

in weakness, a man can present a great danger

A coward dies a thousand times, but a brave man only once

He thought of all the time in his life he had spent gambling.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

No es cobardía saber lo que es insensato. —Ni es insensato saber lo que es cobardía —dijo Anselmo, incapaz de resistir la tentación de hacer una frase.