Quotes About Risk

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined -- personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

A person who publishes a book wilfully appears before the populace with his pants down. –

If you walk east at daybreak from the town To the cliff's foot, by climbing steadily You cling at noon whence there is no way down But to go toppling backward to the sea. And not for birds nor birds' eggs, so they say, But for a flower that in these fissures grows, Forms have been seen to move throughout the day Skyward; but what its name is no one knows. 'Tis said you find beside them on the sand This flower, relinquished by the broken hand.

Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.

Vendado con un pañuelo rojo y tambaleándose en la claridad, el hombre juega a

We like the taste of freedom ... because we like the smell of danger.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

My most memorable hikes can be classified as 'Shortcuts that Backfired'.

A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches—that is the right and privilege of any free American.

When in doubt about drinking from an unknown spring look for life. If the water is scummed with algae, crawling with worms, grubs, larvae, spiders and liver flukes, be reassured, drink hearty, you'll get nothing worse than dysentery. But if it appears innocent and pure, beware.

I am-really am-an extremist, one who lives and loves by choice far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where this world falls off into the depths of another.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything. Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves.

One of the best things in being a criminal is having no schedule.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Creativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves "thought experiments." You cannot tell in advance how the experiment is going to turn out. But you want to be able to carry out the experiment.