Quotes About Risk

have gambled and stalled.

Helmsworth said, "Ma'am, nothing was impossible. It was the Cold War. It was a kind of madness. One time they sewed a microphone and a transmitter in a cat's neck, with a thin antenna threaded through inside its spine and up its tail. They were going to train it to wander into the Russian Embassy compound and pick up loose talk. Its first day on the job it was run over by a car. Nothing was impossible and everything went wrong sooner or later." Neagley

Attacking me was like pushing open a forbidden door. What waited on the other side was his problem. His risk. If he didn't like it, he shouldn't have pushed open the damn door.

Never count on anything except surprise and unpredictability and danger. Ring doorbells with your knuckles or elbows to avoid leaving fingerprints.

If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night." "No," Reacher said. "If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame.

Pascal's Wager.

The Marines might grab you first. Fate worse than death.

To be afraid of a survivable thing was irrational.

Zona peligrosa

Any kind of operation was a point of vulnerability.

Trampa mortal

All the guys Reacher had ever known, fraud, theft, homicide, and treason, right up to the very end believed there was some chance of getting away with it, and therefore something should be salvaged, if possible. No one wanted to start over with nothing.

12. Nada que perder (Nothing to Lose)

We're not insured," she said. Then she leaned under the counter and came up with a shotgun. "Not by no insurance company, anyway," she said.

every day a woman should do something that scared her.

I've noticed that two prayers in particular are among the riskiest a person can pray. [...] "God, open my eyes to who you really are, and then I'll open my life to you." [...] "God, here I am, fully submitted to you; use me as you have never used me before.

Researchers have gathered a wealth of data lately suggesting that chronic anger is so damaging to the body that it ranks with — or even exceeds — cigarette smoking, obesity, and a high-fat diet as a powerful risk factor for early death.

A perilous beautiful move, choosing to throw yourself at the future, even if it means one day coming down in the sea.

Comyn thought it was funny. It was very funny, indeed, that men making the second Big Jump in history, that men going faster and farther than any men but five had ever gone before, separated only by metal walls from the awfulness of infinity, should sit and play games with little plastic cards and pretend they were not where they were.

As someone called Anonymous once said, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain." MARK TWAIN

Life is a four-letter word.

È inutile, inoltre, imbarcarsi in una potenziale follia solo per evitare di essere gli ultimi a compierla.

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.