Quotes About Risk

As for the well-known Amory, he would write immortal literature if he were sure enough to risk telling anyone else about it. There is no more dangerous gift to posterity than a few cleverly turned platitudes.

Why are all the exciting things so uncomfortable

Why are all the exciting things so uncomfortable? Like fighting and exploring and skiing in Canada?

No, dear.  It's not that sort of thing.  I have this feeling you'll be in danger there.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

When I want something bad enough, common sense tells me to go and take it--and not get caught.

Its nothing,' said Horace quietly, 'but if you can think of any nicer way of a man killing himself than taking a risk for you, why that's the way I want to die.

There's no 'Safety First' in Art.

Back out,' he suggested after a moment. 'Put her in reverse.' 'But the WHEEL'S off!' He hesitated. 'No harm in trying,' he said.

Smart men play close to the line because they have to--some of them can't stand it, so they quit.

Just do everything we didn't do and you will be perfectly safe.

Oh, many things. I've led a very active life. Knocked about here and there. (His tone implies anything front lion-stalking to organized crime.)

As for the well-known Amory, he would write immortal literature if he were sure enough about anything to risk telling any one else about it.

Well, if someone is a bad driver and all the other drivers around them are good drivers, then they are safe because all the good drivers will dodge the bad driver so that there is no car crash. But if there is another bad driver, then there can be a crash.

Fine dives have been made from flimsier spring-boards

A bad driver is only safe until she met another bad driver

Vous m'avez dit qu'une conductrice imprudente ne risquait rien tant qu'elle ne rencontrait pas de conducteur imprudent. J'en ai rencontré un, vous ne croyez pas? Je veux dire que je me suis mise en danger en faisant une telle erreur de jugement. J'ai cru que vous étiez quelqu'un d'honnête, de loyal. J'ai cru que c'était là votre secret d'orgueil.

You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I?

Capital is a coward

Without credit default swaps, there might never have been a President Donald Trump.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines! Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

goddamn well dare the two of you to

Se te queres matar, porque não te queres matar? Ah, aproveita! que eu, que tanto amo a morte e a vida, Se ousasse matar-me, também me mataria... Ah, se ousares, ousa!