Quotes About Risk

If any government was so foolhardy as to launch a first strike, it would create the only thing worse than an army of the living dead: a mutant, radioactive army of the living dead.

A person has to show some spirit--fate just about never shines kindly on chickenshits.

If touching a spider kills you, well, I guess you were too delicate for this earth, and it was nice knowing you." My summers always started with a firm acknowledgment that I might die as a result of trying to enjoy them.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

The thought crossed my mind that I should have been a bit more wary before climbing into a helicopter and flying to God knows where without an escape route.

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

There are no bad drawings. Drawings are experiences. The more you draw, the more experienced you'll get. In fact, you'll learn more from bad or unpredictable or weird experiences than from those that go exactly as you'd hoped and planned. So let it go. Release your ego's desire for perfection. Take risks. Stretch. Grow. Create as much as you can, whenever you can.

When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.

A race track is a place where windows clean people.

I don't know if she has a boyfriend. You should ask her.' 'If I ask her, she'll say yes. It's better not to know. That way you're always in with a chance. Even if they're with their husbands, and you've just watched them take their vows, never ask them if they're married. Totally ruins your chances.

Et c'est quoi la différence entre art et culture? L'art n'arrive que si on met sa culture en danger

Just like with love. It's all or nothing. ... That's why love is dangerous. We stand up for love. We take risks. Well, you of all people know about that - your own Soviet Russia, an entire nation rearranged to discourage love for anything other than one's country.' Because love caused people to think for themselves, to look out for themselves and their loved ones.

Ken didn't care that Adrian's previous business, a startup company that created collapsible high heel shoes, flopped.

Either brave or stupid, Rachel thought. Of course, everything brave was also stupid. Sadly the same could not be said of the reverse.

What could possibly go wrong?

Every protected system created has a vulnerability to outside intervention.

Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that. - T-shirt

Jack Daniels, that is a wild man drink. It should come with bail money. Because on Jack you don't know where you're going to end up, but you know when you get there you're not going to be wearing pants.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.... I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.