Quotes About Risk

Photographer William Leftwich was rewarded for his nervy visit to the uppermost reaches of the RCA's steel frame when two workers standing fifteen feet apart on a single beam began to toss a football back and forth.

You think this is the first time you've been at risk of killing someone? You're a nurse. The wrong injection and boom, dead patient. That never stopped you from working. You could run over three people on the way to the office. That never stopped you from driving. You did these things, despite the risks,

It was mad and it was beautiful.

Akimov had decided to throw caution to the wind and host a blowout

The European Community makes the life of the international terrorist much easier because, once inside a member nation, travel to the others is almost free of risk.

A moment passed in silence. Then Gabriel asked, "What are you thinking now, Eli?" "I'm wondering why a beautiful young woman like that would risk her career to give a Russian journalist confidential financial documents about an important client." "Perhaps she has a conscience." "Not possible. RhineBank doesn't hire anyone whose conscience wasn't removed at birth.

No había nada más peligroso, pensó, que un hombre paciente.

When counterterrorism officers feel optimism, innocent people usually end up dead. - Gabriel Allon

Complacency, he had warned her, was an illegal's greatest enemy

Hope is not an acceptable strategy when lives are at stake. Hope is what led to 9/11. - Adrian Carter

the further we are from our last disaster, the closer we are to our next.

According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, forty-nine media professionals have been killed in Russia since 1992. Only in Iraq and Algeria have more died in the line of duty during the same period. This, too, is a Russian tragedy.

In the Middle East, people of discretion are either spies or terrorists. - Nadia al-Bakari

suicide vest.

fled East Berlin. They had made

When one is making an omelet it is necessary to break eggs. - Saladin

Nothing worse doing is without risk. - Saladin

lethal roadside bombs

Nothing worth doing this without risk. – Saladin

Nothing worth doing is without risk. - Saladin

The secrets of survivors are not easily surrendered. They are locked away behind barricaded doors and accessed at great risk to those who possess them.

The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next.

most people think they will regret foolish actions more than foolish inactions.

The definition of a calculated risk is a gamble which military men take when they can't figure out what else to do and which turns out to be right. When it turns out wrong, it wasn't a calculated risk at all. It was a piece of utter stupidity.