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Quotes About Risk

I realised that my life was at risk; yet I knew that I could not permit an innocent man or woman to be targeted and murdered without trying everything in my power to stop it. 
~ Martin McGartland
Depressions are indeed one of the states a capitalist economy can fall into. An economic theory that does not incorporate that possibility is as relevant as a theory of biology that excludes the risk of extinctions, a theory of the body that excludes the risk of heart attacks, or a theory of bridge-building that excludes the risk of collapse.
~ Martin Wolf
Life is a series of risks. Trust, and you'll sometimes be hurt. Love, and someone will die. Life is joy and pain. If you don't risk the pain, you lose out on the joy. This was Seth's final lesson to us.
~ Mary Alice Monroe
It is also for stepping into the unknown, Claudia said, when it would be easier to cling what it familiar and safe.
~ Mary Balogh
I am afraid that it will all be ruined. It is like stepping out into the darkness when one has a world of light and warmth behind one.
~ Mary Balogh
Eunice Goddard, he said, all pretense of sleepiness gone from his eyes, will you marry me? I have no flowery speech prepared and would feel remarkably idiotic delivering it even if I had. Will you just simply marry me, my love? Because I love you? Will you take the risk? I am fully aware that there is a risk. I can only urge you to take a chance on me while I promise to do my very best to love and cherish you for the rest of my days and even perhaps beyond them.
~ Mary Balogh
You don't mind breaking the law?" "Not in the least." "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "Not in a good cause.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It would cease to be a danger if we could define it
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It would be a rare place for a gallop. You would naturally think so and the thought has cost several their lives before now. You notice those bright green spots scattered thickly over it?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. It is the first rule of criminal investigation.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
yourself in doubt or in danger—
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
You seem very anxious to lose your life.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm like an old golf-ball—I've had all the white paint knocked off me long ago. Life can whack me about now, and it can't leave a mark. But a sportin' risk, young fellah, that's the salt of existence.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I have to be careful, he continued, turning to me with a smile, for I dabble with poisons a good deal.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Tan peligroso es quitarle su cachorro a un tigre como arrebatarle a una mujer una ilusión».
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
But a sportin' risk, young fellah, that's the salt of existence. Then it's worth livin' again. We're all gettin' a deal too soft and dull and comfy. Give me the great waste lands and the wide spaces, with a gun in my fist and somethin' to look for that's worth findin'.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a dangerous habit to finger loaded firearms in the pocket of one's dressing-gown.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.
~ Arthur Golden
dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.
~ Arthur Golden
Nikad nisam stvarno razumjela zašto se Hatsumomo izlaže takvom riziku i dovodi ljubavnika u okiju, iako je nju vjerojatno upravo to uzbu?ivalo.
~ Arthur Golden
Zato snovi mogu biti tako opasni:oni tinjaju poput prigušene vatre,a ponekad se vatra rasplamsa i potpuno nas proguta.
~ Arthur Golden
Por eso los sueños son tan peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y a veces nos consumen completamente.
~ Arthur Golden
This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.
~ Arthur Golden
Por eso los sueños son tan peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y te consumen completamente
~ Arthur Golden