Quotes About Risk

Never dare a Coyote. Ever. It was a law, even the council knew to never dare them. They always accepted a dare. They always triumphed.

As Rowdy watched his father leave the room, a heavy sigh slipped past his lips. Maria's objections to his relationship made more sense now. He shook his head, realizing how well his father, James Salyers, and Maria had kept that secret. Reputations. Theirs was intact, but his wasn't. And now, he was risking Kelly's as well.

But don't push happiness away because you're scared that it actually might end up hurting you. The beauty of loving is that you have to take chances to find real love. It is the critical component of love and loving. You have to take a leap of faith that it will work. It's the perfect example of hope.

I tell you Dain is a splendid catch. I advise you to set your hooks and reel him in." Jessica took a long swallow of her cognac. "This is not a trout, Genevieve. This is a great, hungry shark." "Then use a harpoon.

She was wearing an old summer dress as a nightgown, but in the mornings it could work as a dress again, if you just tossed a cardigan over it and put on shoes. In this risky manner, she knew, insanity could encroach.

Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be.

EÄŸer insanlar?n nefret kusmalar? hiç bir riziko ta??m?yorsa, salakl?klar? kolay ikna olur, gerekçelerde kendiliÄŸinden ortaya ç?kar.

Quand la haine des hommes ne comporte aucun risque, leur bêtise est vite convaincue, les motifs viennent tout seuls.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

He is a fool who will descend into a well on another man's rope.

Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning.

All men wish to be captains, but few men wish to shoulder the burden of decision, and in coming here with these others, I had staked a claim that I must wall against misfortune.

as they were, and skillful with weapons, they went about where they liked and did as they pleased, approaching the inevitable time when they would cross the wrong man

But in the West few men would risk bothering a woman. It was the one thing the frontier would not accept - Kilkenny

Only the innocent speak of adventure, for adventure is only a romantic name for trouble...

Murder? It is not easily done, amigo.

feet on the deck over their heads and then the sound, far off but

There is no safety anywhere,' he said quietly, 'but you do not seem a man who is used to safety. Ride well.

I've nothing against a man being scared as long as he does what has to be done Ã¢â'¬Â¦ being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.

It is well for men to risk dangers, for we have broad backs to bear the blows, but I marvel at the courage of women who go with us, and must think of bearing children alone, and in a far place.

Kill him? Would that be it? No man knew better than he the tricks that Destiny plays on a man, or how often the right man dies at the wrong time and place. A man never wore a gun without inviting trouble, he never stepped into a street and began the gunman's walk without the full knowledge that he might be a shade too slow, that some small thing might disturb him just long enough!

Sometimes I think it is not the money, but the game. It isn't the winning so much as it is to play the cards right.

I mean what I say, Hyatt. That young man is all that stands between us and savagery. He's the thin line of protection, and when he walks out there on the street his life is on the line every minute he wears that badge.

the very idea of taking a risk that was not demanded by circumstances was repugnant to him.