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Quotes About Risk

Oh, I dasn't, Mars Tom. Ole missis she'd take an' tar de head off'n me. 'Deed she would.
~ Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
~ Mark Twain
You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.
~ Mark Twain
But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody.
~ Mark Twain
He told me what it was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides.
~ Mark Twain
explosive and was expected to blow him up and
~ Mark Twain
Dans vingt ans, vous serez plus déçu par les choses que vous n'avez pas faites que par celles que vous avez faites. Alors sortez des sentiers battus. Mettez les voiles. Explorez. Rêvez. Découvrez.
~ Mark Twain
Syrian travel has its interesting features, like travel in any other part of the world, and yet to break your leg or have the cholera adds a welcome variety to it.
~ Mark Twain
men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This
~ Mark Twain
Tra vent'anni sarete più delusi per le cose che non avete fatto che per quelle che avete fatto. Quindi mollate le cime. Allontanatevi dal porto sicuro. Prendete con le vostre vele i venti. Esplorate. Sognate. Scoprite
~ Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
~ Mark Twain
Smiley always came out a winner on that pup, till he bet on a dog once that didn't have no rear legs, because they'd been sawed off in a circular saw accident. When the fight had gone along far
~ Mark Twain
y por fin nuestra curiosidad pudo más que nuestros temores; nos arriesgamos a retroceder, aunque lentamente y dispuestos a salir huyendo a la menor alarma.
~ Mark Twain
Necessity is the mother of "taking chances.
~ Mark Twain
Dans vingt ans, vous serez plus déçus par les choses que vous n'avez pas faites que par celles que vous avez faites. Alors sortez des sentiers battus. Mettez les voiles. Explorez. Rêvez. Découvrez.
~ Mark Twain
Often, as we lay on our faces, a granite boulder, as large as a village church, would start out of the bottom apparently, and seem climbing up rapidly to the surface, till presently it threatened to touch our faces, and we could not resist the impulse to seize an oar and avert the danger.
~ Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did.
~ Mark Twain
me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake
~ Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
~ Mark Twain
Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did.
~ Mark Twain
Sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails, explore, dream, discover.
~ Mark Twain (Samuel Clements)
You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
However, The haven-Slocum Theory also points out that this course is not without risk. An even greater number of people dwelling on The Navidson Record have shown an increase in obsessiveness, insomnia, and incoherence: Most of those who chose to abandon their interest soon recovered. A few, however, required counseling and in some instances medication and hospitalization. Three cases resulted in suicide.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski