Quotes About Risk

Mais dans ce monde il faut bien risquer quelque chose.

But there is no need to know danger in order to fear it; indeed, it may be observed, that it is usually unknown perils that inspire the greatest terror.

Remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than those that walk on four.

Overturn the world, change its character, yield to mad ideas, be even criminal—but live.

He was a young man of between eighteen and twenty, tall, slim, with fine dark eyes and ebony-black hair. His whole demeanor possessed the calm and resolve peculiar to men who have been accustomed from childhood to wrestle with danger. Page 8

Mme. Bonacieux looked at the young man, restrained for a minute by a last hesitation; but there was so much ardor in his eyes, such persuasion in his voice, that she felt herself constrained to confide in him. Besides, she found herself in circumstances where everything must be risked for the sake of everything.

Ne craignez pas les occasions et cherchez les aventures.

short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV, I stumbled by chance upon the Memoirs of M. d'Artagnan, printed—as were most of the works of that period, in which authors could not tell the truth without the risk of a residence, more or less long, in the Bastille—at Amsterdam, by Pierre Rouge.

Digo que el amor es una lotería en la que el que gana, gana la muerte. Sois muy afortunado por haber perdido, creedme, mi querido D'Artagnan. Y si tengo algún consejo que daros, es perder siempre.

Le besoin de sécurité asphyxie l'âme.

One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.

An old man – utterly alone – he had staked his all on a throw – and lost.

So the two went quietly out to save life or lose it, not counted the cost.

The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

What you wind up regretting aren't the things you do, it's what you don't do that you will never forgive yourself for.

Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it became a way of life; the risks felt as natural as drawing a breath.

Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her.

You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.

The children knew that which you cannot see can be more dangerous than that which is before you.

Love had to happen without any certainty, the ultimate leap of faith.

I wondered if all creatures were drawn to what was dangerous or if we merely wanted light at any cost and were willing to burn for our desires.

They learned that sometimes the most dangerous thing of all in matters of live was to be granted your heart's desire.

But love was not about practice or preparation, it was pure chance; if you took your time with it you ran the risk of having it evaporate before it had even begun.

Desire had a way of making a person oddly courageous. In the aunts' opinion, it could sneak up on a grown woman and turn her from a sensible creature into something as foolish as a flea that keeps chasing after the same old dog.