Quotes About Risk

Good critics, who have stamped out poets' hope, Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state, Good patriots, who for a theory risked a cause.

Then there was a fight between our oxen-drivers, one of them attempting to stab the other with a knife, and Robert rushing in between till Peni and I were nearly frantic with fright. No harm happened, however, except that Robert had his trousers torn. And we escaped afterwards certain banditti, who stopped a carriage only the day before on the very road we travelled, and robbed it of sixty-two scudi.

Technology is always double-edged, and the day stone tools were invented, axe murder became possible.

It is possible to erase and mortify yourself to the point where you actually make more work for the people around you, because they are constantly doing emotional labor to support you. A well-developed martyr complex becomes a means of getting attention without ever having to take the emotional risks of asking for attention. It's a tendency, along with self-pity, that I use my rightminding to control.

It is possible to erase and mortify yourself to the point where you actually make more work for the people around you, because they are constantly doing emotional labor to support you. A well-developed martyr complex becomes a means of getting attention without ever having to take the emotional risks of asking for attention.

How will you know that you love, if there is no terror of losing? Is it love at all, if there is no risk? If it is safe?

Electricity is a remarkably simple—though dangerous—animal.

You generally need at least a modicrum of stability for people to have the time and resources to innovate and the will to make risky choices.

Vincent's loyalty to the job had always been unimpeachable…but Kusanagi-Jones was about to gamble that his loyalty to the partnership would outweigh it.

I wonder how many species break their planets getting off them.

I don't want to think what might have Col. Frederick Valens running scared.

Hey, it's my job to climb into questionable machines.

It's an addiction. An obsession. It is not safe.

I was gambling that if she wasn't actively bleeding, her Koregan parasite could repair her the same way mine had repaired me. Otherwise, well, there wasn't much I could do for her that wouldn't result in gangrene.

Be cautious, please. I should hate to lose the pleasure of your conversation.

This will never serve," he said, casting a disdainful eye over the cell. "I will not have your breath at risk." "My lord-" "Peace, Will." The Earl drew himself up to his full, slight height as if the gesture pained him. "Thou'rt here for thine own protection.

As an old crew chief of mine used to point out, you might be dead long before the problem you didn't have the resources to fix right now became a critical need, so why waste more resources worrying about it?

I hauled my heart out of my pants with both hands and followed it through the breachd hull, and into the night.

I hauled my heart out of my pants with both hands and followed it through the breached hull, and into the night.

Maybe faith is a thing your decide to have, even knowing that it's not safe. Even knowing you could lose it, you could be betrayed at any time.

Because I don't trust myself to make those decisions was not the sort of vulnerability you revealed to an enemy.

If I don't report on time, the biometrics wired into my central nervous system will explode, and that'll be it for me, you, and this lovely piece of functional archaeology.

What the Man-Moth fears most he must do, although he fails, of course, and falls back scared but quite unhurt.

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.