Quotes About Risk

There is a chasm between a world that quickly breaks the link between modern economic growth and carbon emissions, and a world that fails to do so. The side of the chasm we are now on is a dangerous place. It would be reckless beyond the normal human irrationality for us to stay where we are.

you show me a man what strikes while the iron is hot and I'll show you a man with a whole mess of third degree burns… Monroe D. Underwood

He looked like a sleepwalker waking up on the verge of a precipice.

Even with tear gas, tommy guns and a police cordon, there is no way to take a desperate man without risking your life.

Perhaps baptism really ought to have some health warnings attached to it: 'If you take this step, if you go into these depths, it will be transfiguring, exhilarating, life-giving and very, very dangerous.' To be baptized into Jesus is not to be in what the world thinks of as a safe place. Jesus' first disciples discovered that in the Gospels, and his disciples have gone on discovering it ever since.

Levi Sterling? He's a threat to the heart, the mind, the sanity, and quite possibly the virginity.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

LOTTERY TICKET: a voluntary tax paid by people who are extremely bad at math.

Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity.

Who has something at stake here?

When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

é preciso decidir, sabendo que qualquer caminho será doloroso e sem segurança sobre o final. Para ser honesto, essa é a condição geral da vida: nunca se sabe. "Se é bom ou se é mau, só o futuro o dirá".

A vida é assim mesmo. É sempre possível deixar o barco atracado ou só navegar nas baías mansas. Aí não há perigo de naufrágio. Mas não há o prazer do calafrio e do desconhecido.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,Where there aren't no Ten Commandments, an' a man can raise a thirst.

Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being. If not, leave this gathering.

The uncertainty of tomorrow can only be understood by those who don't know for sure if they will live another day.

And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.

Challenge yourself to the limits of your fears. Get moving on.

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15 000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

He'd learned something. Life was booby-trapped and there was no easy passage through. You had to jump from colour to colour, from happiness to happiness. And all those possible explosions in between. It could be all over any time.

The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane — or put your children on a plane — if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks.