Quotes About Risk

together. He'd always assumed openness was synonymous with danger

The dream was now in the air at risk of the elements beyond her grasp.

Sometimes it take courage to leave.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.

of going back to her humdrum life, was far more frightening than the thought of marrying him.

Jack had the power to make my heart fly. He also had the power to shoot it out of the sky. Because, let's not forget, love isn't just about the flying.

A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree–or even, occasionally, the careless–may turn out to be half a life.

The man who was going to sound out Roeder was just about their only mainstay at Pokorny. Was it permissible to risk one man's life for another's? Under what conditions was it permissible? Hermann weighed it all in his mind, back and forth, and came to the conclusion that yes, it was permissible. Not only permissible, but necessary.

successful city trader. Which in some ways he was, when you came to think of it. The markets went up, they went down, and if you were smart you could control whichever way they moved. Winner takes all. It didn't matter whether you were a trader shifting shares in oil, or a gangster moving cocaine or heroin. The stakes were as high for both, and those with the biggest balls never, ever lost.

She swallowed hard. "I want to try skinny-dipping." He was so still, she wasn't sure he was even breathing.

Every creative act involves a leap into the void. The leap has to occur at the right moment and yet the time for the leap is never prescribed. In the midst of a leap, there are no guarantees. To leap can often cause acute embarrassment. Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act—a key collaborator.

On all her breezes borne Earth yields no scents like those; But he, that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.

What you ask is madness. But I adore a mad escapade

You can't test courage cautiously.

Because wars you can do, and famines you can do and floods are relatively easy, but no one survives when the cook scratches his arse and then decides not to bother washing his hands.

The anticipated benefit must always outweigh the potential risk when an intervention is to be used. ...Proceeding with any intervention may produce undesirable results. Likewise, failing to intervene when it is called for can have dire consequences.

Love takes a leap of faith. It's an act of courage.