Quotes About Risk

Dark times are the best for dark business,

It's 'cause it can all go wrong so easily that you make every effort to be sure it goes right.

Ninefingers had been so very fond of saying: it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it. He

but it's better to do it—' 'Than to live with the fear of it.

She found she had a great deal less courage altogether than she had smugly supposed while blackmailing investors, or choosing a wig, or pronouncing social death sentences in the salons of Adua. She had always reckoned herself such a gambler. No more audacious woman in the Union. Now she realised the games had always been rigged in her favour. She never had to gamble with her life before, and the stakes had risen suddenly far too high for her taste.

She had always reckoned herself such a gambler. No more audacious woman in the Union. Now she realised the games had always been rigged in her favour. She never had to gamble with her life before, and the stakes had risen suddenly far too high for her taste.

Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder.

Prosperity can be very dangerous for any company. It can lead you to believe that you've cracked the code, or "figured this business out," or that you "know how this business works." No. You know how it used to work. To stop and relax for more than a brief moment is one of the most dangerous things you can do in a marketplace that changes constantly. This doesn't mean that you should run scared or operate your business in a panic mode.

Changing just for the sake of changing can be a more dangerous trap than being stuck in complacency. The graveyard of failed businesses is full of companies that were willing to try anything, whether it made sense or not, just so they could feel that they were "riding the waves of change.

que dejar que nuestros hijos hagan deportes de contacto, como el fútbol americano y el hockey, no es una buena idea.

The only thing I can assure you of is this: The unknown has never let me down.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about. That's just the deal.

You could just tell she was the best kind of trouble.

Oh, now don't act like the idea is so terrible. When you come down to it, what could be more romantic than a few hours of scrambling around in a cold, dripping hole known for occasionally flooding and drowning people?

But Terry doesn't touch her, won't touch her, never touches her. In a decade of knowing her, he has kept her at a friendly distance, even in his imagination, has never once considered allowing her into his sexual fantasies. There would be no harm in such a thing, yet he senses he would be placing something at risk all the same. What he would be placing at risk, he cannot say. To Terry the word "soul" first refers to a kind of music.

every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.

The Devil knows that only those with the courage to risk their souls for love are entitled to have a soul, even if God does not.

Falling in love in high school is like thinking you can fly a 747 because you know how to fly a kite.

You could just tell she was the best kind of trouble. "Why?

se o Bombeiro não estava doente, das duas uma: ou era destemido a ponto de ser quase burro, ou então era somente burro.

I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.

Little novels aren't leisurely, meandering journeys. They're drag races. You put the pedal to the floor and run your narrative right off the edge of the cliff.