Quotes About Risk

Sicherheit erzeugt Angst vor dem Unsicheren.

Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open arms into their misfortune?

No doubt, God took a risk with creation by granting it consciousness and free decision.

Men and women who venture to someone else's war through choice do so in a variety of guises. UN general, BBC correspondent, aid worker, mercenary: in the final analysis they all want the same thing, a hit off the action, a walk on the dark side. It's just a question of how slick a cover you give yourself, and how far you want to go. If you find a cause later then hold on to it, but never blind yourself with your own disguise. I

Those who jump out of airplanes do not love life—they deny it, which, of course, is not done without a certain naughty exhilaration. Like children they relish tugging on the apron of Mother Nature, as long as she doesn't turn and slap them.

inasmuch as a dead rock wants anything—it wants you dead too. So you can go quickly. A landslide can bury you. A lava tube can collapse on you. You can plunge headlong into a crater. A meteoroid can strike your habitat at seventy thousand kilometers per hour. A micrometeorite can bust open your spacesuit. A sudden burst of static electricity can blow

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

ANDREW: Supposing someone saw you climing in? MILO: Who? You're not overlooked. ANDREW: Who knows? A dallying couple. A passing sheep rapist.

ANDREW: Not marriage, Inspector. Sex. Sex is the game with marriage the penalty.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

Of course I'll hurt you. Of course you'll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

Get in," he told Nitish. "What, me?" "No," said Farhad, "one of the other twenty-six white tigers waiting to cross the river.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

La autonomía es lo menos gratuito de este mundo, y si no se conquista cotidianamente lleva en seguida a situaciones de agravio y servidumbre. Sólo hubo y hay tiranos porque otros prefirierons y prefieren rendirse al miedo antes que correr el riesgo de luchar.

El optimismo occidental parte de confiar en la evolución, aunque dicho proceso sea puro riesgo.

A company, which asks the job-seeking candidates to give it in writing a road-map as how they are going to make it grow as a condition or clause for their hiring, is most likely making a great financial loss and most probably its boss is seriously contemplating only to close down that particular business on gross.

A stock market trader can make more money by daily intraday selling than by buying shares as the price rises very slowly and rarely but goes down often very sharply

Game plan is bigger than the match plan only in that sport where a lot of money is involved.

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

Every person has the right to expose himself to whatever disappointment he chooses

Whilst we knew what we had suffered and risked better than any one else, we also knew that science takes no account of such things; that a man is no better for having made the worst journey in the world; and that whether he returns alive or drops by the way will be all the same a hundred years hence if his records and specimens come safely to hand.

We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint....

Generally the risks were taken, for, on the whole, it is better to be a little over-bold than a little over-cautious, while always there was a something inside urging you to do it just because there was a certain risk, and you hardly liked not to do it. It is so easy to be afraid of being afraid!