Quotes About Risk

Here be the Dragons

It's like we stepped into some TV show about cops or spies. Only we're not cops or spies. We're teenagers.

When I hear that someone has lung cancer, did he smoke? comes into my head midway between the syllables can and cer. Obviously I don't say it out loud, but I want to know, because I want to believe that if only my loved ones and I refrain from smoking, we will be ineligible for lung cancer (and, ideally, every other kind of cancer).

But the danger that we invite into our lives can come in the most unthreatening shape, the

Adventure is worthwhile.

Rash men wish for dangers beforehand but draw back when they are in them. Brave men are excited at the moment of action, but collected beforehand.

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Radicalism is a luxury of stability because only when we have everything under control can we dare to change things.

Remember folks, always be careful when you're out at night! Lotsa crazee things go on out there!

Most people who are ruined are ruined by attempting too much.

there are a million things we survive every day without recognizing we were ever at risk. Then we have a close call, and we become acutely aware of what that fraction of an inch or that split second means.

I did get myself into this. Somehow, in some convoluted way, it's what I've been looking for in my life. How else did I come to be here? We create our lives. I don't fully understand why, but little by little I get that somehow I've wanted something like this to happen. I've been looking for adventure, and I've found it.

You'll never find your limits until you've gone too far

He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved.

Yet if there were no hazards there would be no achievement, no sense of adventure.

dying in an exciting situation is much better than living in a boring one.

Reliability depended on redundancy and automatic checking, and human intervention was much more likely to do harm than good.

But dying in an exciting situation is much better than living in a boring one.

Apart from this common Lassan tendency to procrastinate, Kumar's chief defects were an adventurous nature and a fondness for sometimes risky practical jokes. This

are industrial accidents.

A man may take one step ahead of his culture and chance being called a genius. But if he takes two steps, he is certain to be called a menace, a madman, a fool.

windows of nonsurvivability

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.