Quotes About Risk

She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.

sometimes you need to make a mess.

Lena, listen to me, okay? We don't have much more time here. You are in love. I've never seen anything like this before. You have to be brave, okay? You have to go and tell Kostos how you feel. I swear to God if you don't, you will regret it for the rest of your cowardly life.' 'What if he doesn't like me back?' 'That's what I mean about being brave.

The real lesson embodied in Katherine's three-year-old frame was the opposite: Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway.

Your chances of getting hit by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!" —Johnny carson

Girls who wouldn't take risks both loved and hated girls who did. Bridget

Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

Sometimes I see it as a tricky mountain pass beween two valleys. Other times, it's like perilous straits connecting two lands. Partly it's the fear of the trip itself, I think, but partly it's the fear that won't be able to get back. I'll turn around and the cloud will have settled over the mountaintop. Or the waters will have risen and shifted, and there will be no way home.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. —Stanislaw J. Lec

I love you. I love him...I think you would love each other. But that math has failed me before.

had a brush with death on an African safari.

No. Here we can see why Pascal's wager, Kierkegaard's leap of faith, and other epistemological ponzi schemes won't do.

This is not to say that everyone should take psychedelics. As I will make clear below, these drugs pose certain dangers. Undoubtedly, some people cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug.

Nobody wanted to gamble on that first Wal-Mart. I think Bud put in 3 percent, and Don Whitaker—whom I had hired to manage the store from a TG&Y store out in Abilene, Texas—put in 2 percent, and I had to put up 95 percent of the dollars. Helen had to sign all the notes along with me, and her statement allowed us to borrow more than I could have alone. We pledged houses and property, everything we had. But in those days we were always borrowed to the hilt.

Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.

You must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; --from fear of its being abused.

And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.    While

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -

All change is of itself an evil, which ought not to be hazarded but for evident advantage; and

AMBS [only in 1755 edition] (AMBS)  ACE.n.s.[from ambo, Lat. and ace.]A double ace; so called when two dice turn up the ace. I had rather be in this choice, than throw ambs ace for my life.Shakesp.All's well that ends well.

Tomorrow, I'm putting my future on the line. If you fuck me over, I'll cut out your heart and eat it.

Have you ever heard of the Swiss cheese model? In order for a catastrophic event, such as a plane crash, to occur, a sequence of events precedes it. Think of these separate factors as slices of Swiss cheese lined up one behind the other. If any one of the holes in them doesn't align with the others, the series of events is changed or curtailed, and a catastrophe is prevented. But if all the holes line up --- The door is open for disaster.

contract. I'm trying to get us through this alive, and I don't want my strategy compromised by an amateur with