Quotes About Risk

Fear of the unknown is always the most difficult to overcome.

Men wanted for Hazardous Journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.

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Ng??i ta cô Ä'Æ¡n ??n t?n trong ná»—i cô Ä'Æ¡n c?a chính mình. Luôn không th? t??ng t??ng ???c. Luôn nguy hi?m. Vâng. Cái giá ph?i tr? vì Ä'ã dám Ä'i ra ngoài và kêu lên.

Celui qui s'expose par ses propos n'est qu'un sot. (L'abîme)

It's just a party, right? What could possibly go wrong?

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?

What she saw in their eyes terrified her. She was a woman traveling alone, in a country that had not seen exposed female faces in over five years. She turned back and cried tears of frustration all the way to Pakistan. ...Asra..., I find her fantasy delightful. Who else would risk her life to take stuffies to Afghanistan?

I think what you can't see is always what you should be frightened of.

You build a tower then you also build the chance it will fall. To think of life as a foolproof is a falacy of fools, he thought. Things happen, he believed, and there's nothing you can do to keep them from occuring.

men and women desperate enough to risk death to express their wishes.19

The purpose of the Library is to preserve the integrity of civilization... Why we do things will not change, but how we will do them will... If the Library is to fulfill its purpose in the future, librarians must commit to a culture of continuous operational change, accept risk and uncertainty as key properties of the profession, and uphold service to the user as our most valuable directive.

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

Without the threat of death there's no reason to live.

Then we dared Pogo to cut his wrist with a knife, which he did several times.

If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.

That's how the world is, touch anything, change everything. Caution is needed.

To me, going to the unknown is absolutely rule number one.

He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to run the chance of losing all on a matter of principle, on a matter of honor; for revenge?

You know, it's a funny thing. You can smoke yourself to death, drink yourself to death, work yourself to death, and even eat yourself to death. But that's all acceptable. The only thing you can't do medically is screw yourself to death, and yet that's where they put all the obstacles.

Writing, like gambling, was always a big part of my life," he used to say. "Both gave me sanctuary from the world. And you never really had to kill someone to get what you wanted. You just had to beat fate.