Quotes About Risk

If one's enemies know where you are, no matter how well protected you are, you can be gotten.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most--courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have

Have I not walked without an upward lookOf caution under stars that very wellMight not have missed me when they shot and fell?It was a risk I had to take—and took.

I never dared to be radical when youngFor fear it would make me conservative when old.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts?

Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

There is no security in this life - only varying degrees of risk. Yet millions unquestioningly sacrifice their lives on the altar of security.

Being too far ahead of your time is indistinguishable from being wrong.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

Hesitation was fatal. Choose.

Strike teringat kata Adler, "Kebohongan tidak akan masuk akal, kecuali kebenaran mengandung bahaya yang setara.

Robin remained quite still in front of her dressing table, staring down at the box containing her wedding shoes, thinking. She saw the risks plainly spread beneath her, like the rocks and raging waters beneath a tightrope walker's feet.

Mingling grandiosity and short-sightedness in dangerous measure.

Now she hesitated, wondering whether she dare do what she wanted . . . but surely, if they were best friends, it was all right?

Trouble is, you're just as dead if you're knifed by a self-dramatizing twat as by a professional.

In spite of the conventional bottle of wine held on her lap, she was highly strung, happy to take risks and chances. She lived alone and talked books not babies; she was not, in short, Lucy's kind of woman

The simplest, most plausible explanation I can think of is that somebody offered her a lift. A car pulled up—" "Or a van," said Strike. Robin had, indeed, reached the same conclusion he had. "Someone she knew—" "Or someone who seemed safe. An elderly man—" "Or what she thinks is a woman." "Exactly," said Robin.

lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.' Tansy

a fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.

ordered him to execute this mission. If death was