Quotes About Risk

remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Our lives aren't worth dying over.

I'm about to jump off the cliff of anxiety mountain.

I'm not a spy. I'm not a cop. All I know is from watching movies and I'm pretty sure if my life depends on doing parkour across rooftops,

I usually define fear as the thing I feel when the unexpected happens. Anxiety is when I'm doing something that I already know is stupid.

usually define fear as the thing I feel when the unexpected happens. Anxiety is when I'm doing something that I already know is stupid.

Tri-acetone tri-peroxide. TATP." "Like plastic explosive?" I ask.

Medicine is conservative. Sometimes for the right reasons. Sometimes for the wrong reasons. We'll let people die from a pandemic because we don't want to give them a cure that might also kill them. It's easier to deal with the repercussions of a death by natural causes than a death from an experimental procedure.

being a scientist can be dangerous. Expert pathogen seekers have lost their lives trying to combat diseases. We've lost astronauts in reentry and ocean explorers to the depths of the sea.

Actually, I killed him in a moment of serene calm. It was what had to be done. I made a calculated decision and pulled the trigger. The risk of him getting away or slipping through the system was too great.

My curiosity was more powerful than my fear.

Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there.

There is no sure thing when it comes to investing. Anyone that tells you that your investment is guaranteed to increase is lying through their teeth.

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

I'm going to play,' says Armand, lacing his fingers and cracking the knuckles. 'A pair of these lads can pump for me.' 'Is this a time for playing?' asks Jean Baptiste. Then, 'You are right. You have never been more so.

Could he not go to hospital?' asks Jean-Baptiste. The doctor flares his nostrils. 'Hospitals are very dangerous places. Particularly to one already weakened by illness.

more unselfish than I had been. What was I doing now? Was I finally overcoming that? Were my needs demanding to be addressed, no matter what the potential risk? Was it my time? Did all adulterers go through a similar self-analysis or didn't they give it a second thought? It was certainly easier not to think about it. Could I do that? Could I avoid imagining Kelly's reaction when or if she found out?

I never saved anything for the swim back.

In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable. Churchill

You would rise in the world? . . . You must work while others amuse themselves. Are you desirous of a reputation for courage? You must risk your life. Churchill, Savrola

In the Second World War his bulldog obstinacy proved invaluable; during the Gallipoli campaign it left him appallingly vulnerable.

The prize seemed worth the possible cost.

acting first and leaving the consequences to take care of themselves.

He privately remarked that Boothby 'should join a bomb disposal squad as the best way of rehabilitating himself in the eyes of his fellow men. After all, the bombs might not go off.'133 It sounded cruel, but that is much what he himself had done in 1915, when the six-week average life-expectancy for new officers on the Western Front was not dissimilar to that of bomb-disposal squads in the Second World War.