Quotes About Risk

Perhaps the public would be better served by reframing the issue of media violence in terms of public health, where we seldom speak of causality (even with smoking and lung cancer) because of the variability among individuals and the nature of their exposures, but rather of alterations in "relative risk.

Any act of violence results from the convergence of many risk factors that may include access to weapons, home environment, peer influences, mental health issues, substance use, and social isolation, among many others. Violent media, including music, may be one of those risk factors but is neither sufficient nor necessary for people to commit acts of violence

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that…

I swallowed hard. Was I ready for the Wager of Love? It was still a gamble and there would be no guarantee of happiness, but I would not remain one of the Cowards of Love scattered around me. I knew that one could not be the Empire's greatest lover without truly knowing how to love. And yet I no longer even aspired to this hollow title. I wanted only what every common husband can achieve--to be the greatest lover of my very own wife.

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

car seat-belts. The vast majority of the time they served no real purpose. Even bad drivers could go years between accidents. But when an accident finally did occur—in that precise instant—a seat-belt became the only thing standing between a chance for life and a grisly death.

The great English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead had written, "It is the business of the future to be dangerous. The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Alfred North Whitehead had written, "It is the business of the future to be dangerous. The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." —Winston Churchill

no money could ever be made from it, only lost.

Winston Churchill had once famously pointed out that nothing in life was as exhilarating as being shot at without result.

In most jobs, one learned from one's mistakes. Unfortunately, in our job, a single mistake usually led to a swift death, and corpses were notoriously stubborn when it came to learning from bad experiences.

And there can be no triumph without the possibility of defeat.

It was a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl. Boy purchases girl to protect him. Boy and girl fall in love. Boy prays that girl won't let him die horribly as he puts his UFO-questing nose where various parties don't want it to be.

So if you were hoarding something worthless, it would be a slap on the wrist," said Megan. "But since they found out you were hoarding something of incredible value, you're screwed.

you're right. You're no hero if your act of bravery only makes things worse.

True courage is being scared out of your mind, having everything to lose, and acting anyway.

Cowards die many times before their death. The valiant never taste of death but once." —Shakespeare (Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene II)

Now, to think is to be vulnerable.

The lure of safety drags us into lives we'd prefer to dodge.

The fact that all the diseases of old age have a progression that is exponentially related to age. In other words your chance of having Alzheimer's, for example, at age seventy-five is twice that at age seventy. And your chance of having it age eighty is twice what it was at age seventy-five.

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

There is no security on earth there is only opportunity.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.