Quotes About Risk

Living in Beijing, writing about politically sensitive things now and then, you get used to the idea that somebody, somewhere, might be watching. But it is usually an abstract threat.

One thing I can tell you: with the threat of death hanging over you, you live life to the fullest.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a 'freeze response.' You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn't help you. Staying put does.

We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance.

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.

The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.

I'm threatened because of the amount of information I've provided to the United States.

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

People need to take a tonsilectomy seriously. It can be life threatening.

Most people who make threats don't follow through. The most dangerous people are often those who never make threats. But 'most' and 'often' aren't what you are looking for when you're dealing with a scary person. You want to 'know.' And there is no knowing.

I'm a politician who has to for a time serve in public life, and I get death threats. And it is what it is because you've put yourself out there in the public square.

For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

Certainly what happened to the dinosaurs was not good - that was a terrible day for the dinosaurs, very sad. But I have to say, there are a lot of threats we face as people and, as someone who lives in Los Angeles, I'm personally more likely to die from driving on the freeway than I am from an asteroid, so you have to put that risk in perspective.

I still receive very regular death threats that make it impossible for me to return to Indonesia. I think I could get in, but I don't think I could get out again.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.

I think I was three or four when I first rode and four when I first crashed.

From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.