Quotes About Risk

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

Exactly. Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk. Surely a gentleman should not lay much stress upon this, when a lady is in most desperate need of his help?

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.

We can't do these things in the force, Mr. Holmes," said he. "No wonder you get results that are beyond us. But some of these days you'll go too far, and you'll find yourself and your friend in trouble." "For England, home and beauty—eh, Watson? Martyrs on the altar of our country.

he breaks away as I did from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.

But there was something in the ice-cold reasoning of Holmes which made it impossible to shrink from any adventure which he might recommend. One knew that thus, and only thus, could a solution be found. I clasped his hand in silence, and the die was cast.

Es peligroso quitar su cachorro a un tigre, y también es peligroso arrebatar a una mujer a una ilusion

shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I

Come, Watson, we must really take a risk and try to investigate this a little more closely.

Hadrian snorted at his misplaced humor. Not giving up yet, Hauk. Besides, you know how much I love to live dangerously. Why else would I share a domicile with Jayne? Risking her wrath is what I do for fun. You need to find a new hobby, my friend. -Hadrian & Fain

Think Snake Plissken. You know…Escape From New York? You do this job, and if you don't fuck it up, we let you live. (Joe) Yeah, I've seen that movie. At the end they try to kill him anyway. (Steele) Good, then you're already acquainted with our methods. Saves me a lot of training time and you a low of surprises. (Joe)

El asunto era bien simple: tenía miedo de sí mismo y de lo que estaba dispuesto a hacer para mantenerla a salvo.

Follow me down before anyone else gets show. Especially before I get shot, 'cause that would just ruin an otherwise nice day. (Jack)

Lo siento about the u-rine, mi amigo, but better safe than sorry when in the swamp. That's my motto.-Mark

Lo que uno más lamenta es lo que alguna vez no tuvo el coraje de hacer

Life was full of risks. Avoiding them might be comfortable, but was it really living?

But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.

occurred to Jenna that she might still be in danger. Not while

I personally preferred to chance the arsenic," Uncle Julian said.

Madness— that's more up your alley. You're married. I don't dare go meshugge

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

Business is a game,' David told Kate, 'played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the