Quotes About Risk

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships that are in peril.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living out fears.

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

Surrendering is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival.

If life on death row is safer than life on the streets, it's hard to believe that the fear of execution is a driving force in a criminal's calculus.

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

at any rate, there's no harm in trying.

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. There was no label this time with the words 'DRINK ME,' but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips. 'I know SOMETHING interesting is sure to happen,' she said to herself, 'whenever I eat or drink anything; so I'll just see what this bottle does.

She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!

down stairs! How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!' (Which was very likely true.) Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! 'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let

However, this bottle was not marked 'poison,' so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very

I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll

But it must be borne in mind that, if there is a Scylla before me, there is also a Charybdis - and that, in my fear of being read as a jest, I may incur the darker destiny of not being read at all.

si l'on boit une bonne partie du contenu d'une bouteille portant l'étiquette: poison , ça ne manque presque jamais, tôt ou tard, d'être mauvais pour la santé.

I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that.

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency.

Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

You can't believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There's, like, whales and storms and shit! They don't bloody tell you that!

Look, I know this seems a little half-assed...' 'No, dude. I'd be thrilled if this plan were half-assed. This is, like, no-assed.' 'You're right. It's the most no-assed thing I've ever done in my life.

Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No, 'I say. 'Only untested.

sometimes a little crazy is all you need