Quotes About Risk

We live in a world," he has said, "where deliberately dimming the fucking sun might be less risky than not doing it.

in life, as in mutual funds, past performance is no guarantee of future results.

The Sleeping Giants and Strange Angels may bring with them risky advice. If you listen, your life may change; you will certainly change. If you turn a deaf ear, you'll stay the same. It's up to you. Giants

There is no dry land, he said; there is only fearlessness, which is to be found in the heart. This is the path to freedom. At

You don't know you're wrong." "And I don't know I'm right either. That's what the matter is. Neither of us knows . I'd only be gambling on my own convictions, and — and it isn't even my own money I'd be playing games with, if you want to put it that way.

Are you committed to having a really strange life?" She laughed. "Probably. What do you mean?

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

It's a dangerous thing to want everyone's approval, Gabriella. You must be willing to stand firm and take the risk of being misunderstood. We must find our approval at the feet of our Master.

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.

And for a moment Annie wondered at this, that her brother and sister, good, responsible, decent, fair-minded, had never known the passion that caused a person to risk everything they had, everything they held dear heedlessly put in danger—simply to be near the white dazzle of the sun that somehow for those moments seemed to leave the earth behind.

No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.

They had grown up on shame; it was the nutrient of their soil. Yet, oddly, it was her father she felt she understood the best. And for a moment Annie wondered at this, that her brother and sister, good, responsible, decent, fair-minded, had never known the passion that caused a person to risk everything they had, everything they held dear heedlessly put in danger—simply to be near the white dazzle of the sun that somehow for those moments seemed to leave the earth behind.

she was glad to see all the butter he used. It was his love for butter she was counting on, hoping that would do him in.

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

their reliance on a loyal circle of uncles and aunts, nephews and sons-in-law, to pool capital and lay off risk.

This was why the ancient Athenians had defied the tyranny of Persia against all odds. This was why the early Romans had risked everything to overthrow their kings, so that they could live free or die. And that was why the Florentines had to be ready to die to defend their liberty, Leonardo Bruni concluded—because without liberty, "life [has] no meaning for them.

Man shall never reach the moon, for such a quantity of gunpowder would be needed as to gravely injure the crew.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours.

But one never knows how the dice will fall, and they are always cast before anyone even notices.

Cuando te adentras en el corazón de una mujer, te expones a un peligroso viaje. Hans Hellmut Kirst, Richard Sorge

Die letzte Karte spielt der Tod. La última carta la juega la Muerte.