Quotes About Risk

He who hesitates is usually fucked!

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt a faint, morbid urge to jump.

Hemingway and Fitzgerald didn't drink because they were creative, alienated, or morally weak. They drank because it's what alkies are wired up to do. Creative people probably do run a greater risk of alcoholism and addiction than those in some other jobs, but so what? We all look pretty much the same when we're puking in the gutter.

The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets...as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite.

The devil you knew was always preferable to the devil you didn't.

How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.

In that instant she knew what it must feel like to cross a river into a foreign country, and then set fire to the bridge behind you, and stand on the riverbank, watching and breathing deeply as your only chance of retreat went up in smoke.

That was one way in which the sexes had never been equal; they were not equally dangerous.

she knew that shadows could be dangerous. They could have teeth.

You cant be too careful on a skateboard.

accidental shooting death, they argue, are just part of the price we pay for freedom ... and besides, that sort of thing would never happen to me ; I'm too cool-headed.

Deduce is absurd and dangerous

Because sometimes longshots came in. Both for good and for ill.

Living life dangerously is the key to recognizing that you can do whatever you want when you stop limiting what you believe in.

You play it safe and all you end up with is a lifetime of should-have-beens.

The day we get comfortable with our lives is the day we sacrifice adventure.

It is better to Leap than to Sleep

The 3 C's of life: Choices, Chances, Changes. You must make the choice, to take a chance, if you want anything in life to change.

Nothing in this world is guaranteed, as life itself is a gamble.

The chance you take, may turn out to be the best decision you ever made." LJB

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make better.

Whenever a woman gets pregnant, she literally bets with her life.

Taking a risk is something we do not for our mind but for how it makes us feels, emotions it brings, excitement it creates and I feel alive.