Quotes About Risk

Les jeux sont faits. Nous sommes fucked.

Unfortunately, denial also means ignoring the possibility of peril.

Victory doesn't mean anything if failure isn't a possibility.

You hide a Jew. You pay. Somehow or other, you must.

one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.

You can do anything when it's not real. When it is real, nothing breaks your fall. Nothing gets between you and the ground.

One wild card was yet to be played.

Don't get caught.' This from a man who'd stolen a Jew.

Und es sollte mir einmal mehr beweisen, dass eine Gelegenheit geradewegs zu einer anderen führt, genauso wie ein Risiko ein weiteres nach sich zieht, ein Leben ein anderes und ein Tod den nächsten.

As Liesel would discover, a good thief requires many things. Stealth. Nerve. Speed. More important than any of those things, however, was one final requirement. Luck.

And it would show me, once again, that one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

Don't get caught." This from a man who'd stolen a Jew. From

Le gustaban los corrillos apretados y lo desconocido. La agridulce sensación de la incertidumbre: Ganar o perder.

Era un lunedì e camminavano verso il sole su una corda tesa.

That one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

God was calling them to love and to dare, not to hide and to be safe.

Perhaps we know only by comparing, by drawing distinctions from and similarities to what we already know. But when we use our terms of comparison to shut off any understanding of our connections with one another as human beings, we risk becoming something less than human ourselves. (7)

Foolish perhaps, but I play for high stakes and given an audience there is no act too daring or too noble.

The man who makes no mistakes never makes anything

All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows

When I hear, "People aren't ready," that's like telling a person who is trying to swim, "Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim." When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water.

He also told me that I had no option but to forget all my relatives and friends in Northern Ireland, and that I had to realise that because of the IRA's international contacts, I would have to accept that my life would always be at risk.  He told me that once I had left the Province I would be on my own, and they would not be able to guarantee my life, nor the lives of Angie and the boys if they should join me.

It seems that the great majority of these men and women are still employed in the organisations, and are capable of handing over information which would put their targets at risk from attack.