Quotes About Risk

I've come to enjoy the risk, the sensation of vertigo when I realize that I've shot right over the border of the socially acceptable, that I'm walking on thin ice, on empty air.

Can't play it safe, can't play at all any more

Curiosity got the cat in trouble. Let's go.

She who does not hesitate is lost.

Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who truly understand the word helpless. They dispense with the calculation of risk and profit, they take no thought for the future, they're forced at spearpoint into the present tense. Thrown over a precipice, you fall or else you fly; you clutch at any hope, however unlikely; however - if I may use such an overworked word - miraculous. What we mean by that is, Against all odds.

That Guy, she warned him, is a real weirdo. And you're taking a chance leaving him with your parents. You might be surprised to wake up some morning to learn they have been killed.

Adventures always have to be at least a little uncomfortable or who would know you'd had one? 

It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight.

Ah, but who will bell the cat?" "I am not sure what you mean." "It is a country saying. A council of mice met to decide what to do about the tomcat who was on the loose. They agreed the best plan was to attach a bell to his neck so they could hear him coming and hide. It was a fine plan—but it needed a mouse brave enough to risk his life jumping on the cat.

I know now that to die without tasting this is truly not to have lived. In this, and this only, have we lived: to feel all, to dare all, to try all.

On a voyage of exploration, how can you price what you'll find before you even set sail?

It's better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day. (Rhett Butler)

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

If! If! If There were so many ifs in life, never any certainty of anything, never any security...

Always providing you have enough courage—or money—you can do without a reputation.

Nothing but my devotion to you would make me, at this stage of my career, turn horse thief—and thief of such a horse. Let me help you in.

Well, yes. You see, I've invested a good deal of money in you, and I'd hate to lose it.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

Any growth requires a temporary loss of security.