Quotes About Risk

And falling's just another way to fly.

il principale ispiratore e artefice della decisione di marciare sulla capitale, a qualsiasi rischio, è Michele Bianchi.

When you run for office you have to be willing to lose.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

Nobody said not to go.

The quaking bystanders in a superstitious age would soon have slain an isolated bold man in the beginning of his innovations.

Failure is ever impending.

A person can do anything whom has nothing to lose.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Make another failure like that ... and you'll be immortal.

It will perhaps appear extraordinary that in speaking of marriage we have touched upon so many subjects; but marriage is not only the whole of human life, it is the whole of two human lives. Now just as the addition of a figure to the drawing of a lottery multiplies the chances a hundredfold, so one single life united to another life multiplies by a startling progression the risks of human life, which are in any case so manifold.

You never risked everything; you risked as little as possible. You sold the idea of risking everything to the sort of idiot who thought that was how you got rich, but you kept your own risks to an absolute minimum. That way if you did make a mistake--and everybody made mistakes, or they weren't really trying--it didn't finish you. Let others ruin themselves--there were always rich pickings in the wreckage--but don't ever risk too much yourself.

It was scary at first, being a young girl leaving high fashion, the only segment of the industry I knew, and walking into a more high profile, mainstream modeling world that had never been that accepting of an African American model before. But I knew the decision I made was worth the risk more than trying to stay in a world that was rejecting me because of what I naturally looked like. Regardless of the outcome, I knew it was right.

The craft is finding a decent drainpipe to get access to the site as much as it is in the art...Van Gogh used short, stumpy brush strokes to convey his insanity - I use short, thin ledges above mainline train tracks.

Remember – it's always easier to get forgiveness than permission

È sempre più facile ottenere il perdono che il permesso

Espionage has something of the quality of a dream. In the spy's world, as in dreams, the terrain is always uncertain. You put your foot on what looks like solid ground and it gives way under you and you go into a kind of free fall, turning slowly tail over tip and clutching onto things that are themselves falling. This instability, this myriad-ness, that the world takes on, is both the attraction and terror of being a spy.

We've protected thousands of people in Libya we have not seen a single U.S. casualty there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless of how they got there or whether they know God's name. Sometimes it comes as an extended human hand and sometimes as a bolt from the blue, but either way it opens a door in what looked for all the world like a wall. This is the way of life, and God alone knows how it works.