Quotes About Risk

As for why we're going over the plan again, let me remind you that one good screwup will make the fate of those poor bastards look sunny in comparison to what we'll get.

You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street.

Sen ve ben gidip ne bulursak yaÄŸmalayaca??z!" "Bak bu kulaÄŸa tehlikeli geliyor," dedi Jean. "BaÅŸkalar? için öyle olabilir. Centilmen Piçler içinse, eh, bu bizim iÅŸimiz." "Bizim mi?" "Bizim.

La única persona capaz de acabar sin riesgo los juegos de Locke Lamora… —… es Locke… —… porque creemos que los dioses le libraron de una muerte terrible. Algo que tenía que ver con cuchillos y hierros al rojo… —… y cincuenta mil espectadores que aplaudían.

Locke ran his fingers under his coat lapel, then peeked at his cards and said "Ahhhh-ha," with a tone of interested pleasure. They were an astonishing constellation of crap; his worst hand yet.

Gamblers play just as lovers make love and drunkards drink - blindly and of necessity, under domination of an irresistible force.

Gamblers play just as lovers make love and drunkards drink—blindly and of necessity, under domination of an irresistible force." Jacques Anatole Thibault

For the Gentleman Bastards, well, it's just what we do." "We?" "We.

playing "cautiously" is not the same as playing "smartly.

Q: What's the definition of bravery? A: A man with diarrhea, chancing a fart.

Q: Why did the teacher jump into the lake? A: She wanted to test the waters.

Q: Why didn't the chicken cross the road? A: Because he was a chicken.

them. Experience suggested such places were more likely to harbor danger than supplies. Not that the

At that moment I walked across the deck and, though many hands tried to hold me back, flung myself into the sea.

Inflation is like a moving treadmill. Prices don't stand still — they keep increasing year on year (5.5 per cent per annum over the past 45 years in fact). If you stick your money under the bed, or in a transaction account earning 0.1 per cent interest per annum, then you're doing the equivalent of standing still on that moving treadmill. It's not safe. It's incredibly risky and it will have a devastating impact on your retirement.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, da valiant never taste of death but once, eh?" The quote came out of nowhere, so random it made Magnus lower the torch. "I'm shocked. You know Julius Caesar?

Beyond stupid," John said. "You play with fire, you're going to get the horns, Quentin. Remember I said that." "How could I forget?

species that "fear rightly" increase their chances of survival. We anxious people are less likely to remove ourselves from the gene pool by, say, frolicking on the edge of cliffs or becoming fighter pilots.

Life is shaky. Never, son, forget How risky and slippy things are in this world. Walk easy when the jug's full, and don't ever Take your luck for granted. Count your blessings And always be ready to pity other people.

Walk on air against your better judgement.

I shall gain glory or die.

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

California State University Professor Mike Orkin points out that if a person drives ten miles to buy a ticket, he or she is about sixteen times more likely to get killed in a car crash on the way than to win the jackpot. Wait a minute, you say; that may be for one ticket, but they're buying a lot of tickets—surely, that improves the odds. It does, but Orkin notes that a person who buys fifty tickets a week will win the jackpot on average about once every 30,000 years.