Quotes About Risk

A Gallagher Girl's real grades don't come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.

No matter how much I pushed, she refused to have the genetic screening that could save her life. I

A leap of faith means hurdling into the unknown, and believing in our hearts that we will make it to the other side, despite not yet knowing what the other side is going to look like. It is taking bold action in spite of the fact that this action is forcing us out of our familiar territory, and our comfort zones. It also means taking action even though we cannot foresee the results or consequences of our choice. To do this requires both faith and courage!

The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

He who ignores the law of probabilities challenges an adversary that is seldom beaten.

Coward: one who, in perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

COWARD, n. One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

God hates a coward...

VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.

Misjudgment is as much a part of life as unhappiness. It is nice to hold the power and make choices for everyone. But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

Threats for tomorrow don't cut very deep when today is so damn threatening.

The figurehead goes at the front of the ship. Braves the terror of wind and waves, takes the risks and reaps the glory. But it's an unnoticed fellow hidden away near the back who does the steering." He smiled up towards the head of the column. "No leader worth a damn ever led from the front.

Just keep in mind what Rudd Threetrees once told me. Let's us get them killed, and not the other way round.' Wonderful grinned. 'Best damn advice about war I ever heard.

Armour is part of a state of mind in which you admit the possibility of being hit

They say it's men with nothing to lose you should fear. But it's them who fear most.

You'd have to be a bold man to bet your life on what I'd dare. How bold are you? -Sand dan Glokta

Better to do it, than to live with the fear of it, and so forth.

You seem happy enough," came Monza's voice, "for a man about to risk his life." Shiver's opened his eyes and turned his grin on her. "I've made peace with myself." "Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win." "Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting." "I'm starting to think that's the only victory worth a shit," she muttered, almost to herself.

When you build your life around only one thing, love only one person, dream only one dream, you risk losing everything at a stroke.