Quotes About Risk

It's not the way Zane looks, David, she said, her voice trembling with anger. It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was. It's just programming! No. It's because I love him.

But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris

Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace

You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger. I have always considered that a good habit

bazen bir an için kalk?p gitme, ba?lar? koparma cesaretini buluyorum kendimde, ke?ke nereye gidece?imi bilsem. herhalde giderdim.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game

Danger takes from a man all power of thought

You know,I think I'd rather freeze than continue this conversation. You've been warned.Proceed at your own risk." He smiled. "I always do,darlin'.

When we trust another person, such as a friend to whom we tell something very private, we make ourselves vulnerable, but it is a risk we are willing to take in order to make that relationship even closer.

Of course, I am a heretic. The word hairesis in Greek means choice; a heretic is one who is able to choose. Its root stems from the Greek word hairein, to take. Faced with the mystery of life and death, each act of faith is a gamble. We all risk choices before the unknown. -Forrest Church

piratical instincts,

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Success is often to be found at the edge of failure

This tendency to personalize is, as we'll see, a characteristic of many people who suffer from innumeracy. Equally typical is a tendency to equate the risk from some obscure and exotic malady with the chances of suffering from heart and circulatory disease, from which about 12,000 Americans die each week.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

I was scared of one thing after another. I still am. Naturally. How could it be otherwise? You can either be fearless or you can be free, you can't be both.

If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.

If we don't risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.

As we are preparing to land the captain asks that you return your tray tables to the upright position, unfasten your seat belts, and jump out of the helicopter. We'd like to thank you for flying with the U.S. Navy, and hope you will choose to travel with us again in the future." "The far fucking future," added Harford. "Amen," said Ivanov. As

risks. Thus we take it for granted that, when a relationship to a special loved person is endangered, we are not only anxious but are usually angry as well. As responses to the risk of loss, anxiety and anger go hand in hand. It is not for nothing that they have the same etymological root.

Stephen Hawking has estimated: "Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next 1,000 or 10,000 years. By that time we should have spread out into space, . . .

The likelihood of being killed by terrorism is extremely low, yet we have instituted actions to counter terrorism that significantly reduce our quality of life. As a recent example, X-ray body scanners could increase the risk of cancer to a degree greater than the risk from terrorism—the same sort of counterproductive overreaction as the one to spiders. This does not imply that we should let spiders, or terrorists, crawl all over us—but the risks need to be managed rationally.