Quotes About Risk

Nos adaptamos a nuestras nuevas y mejores circunstancias y después bajamos el listón de los niveles de incomodidad y riesgo que consideramos intolerables.

You can die merging onto the freeway. You can choke on your take-out salad.

That placed her inches from a yawning abyss.

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

Give in to love, or live in fear

With 25/50 blinds, a loose-aggressive player raised to 150 out of his 2,500 stack from middle position. You decided to call with 9-8 from the button. Both of the blinds folded. The flop came 9-8-4 and your opponent made a continuation bet of 250 into the 375 pot.

Jim Is there no other way? Claire We could just say no to him. Jim Can't risk that. Collapse of conference, collapse of backbench support, collapse of Cabinet. Collapse of my career. The biggest disaster since Dunkirk. Humphrey I think not, Prime Minister. Jim Name a bigger one. Humphrey The Freedom of Information Act.

Stabbing is for suckers who want to die.

And they don't know what kind of raw, unfiltered hell they'd be stepping into if they try to break in here." Lindsey

What is the good of becoming strong if love bares your flesh to the teeth of misfortune? Why risk loving anyone or anything when life is so frail a thing that a strong wind can blow it out of your experience?

Yippie ki-yay and all that shit.

In 2006, political scientist Jacob Hacker described what he called the "Great Risk Shift" in a book by the same name. Over the half century following World War II, governments and businesses gradually shifted financial risks from their ledgers onto the shoulders of individuals and families.

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You don't want to be killed. I don't either. But wouldn't you rather die once than die every day of your life?

Leadership demands two kinds of courage: the strength to take a risk, and the humility to admit when a risk fails.

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

According to Colonel David Hackworth, 15 to 20 percent of American deaths in Vietnam were due to "friendly fire.

You shouldn't have done it," I said. "You shouldn't have risked yourself." "Come off it," Lockwood said. "You know I'd die for you." He chuckled. "Heaven knows, I've come near it often enough. Scrambling down a crack in the ground is nothing…

Burglary's more fun than socializing, I always say.

What I mean is, we're not necessarily going to run into trouble here. Despite its history of violent death.

We trespassed in the city of the dead, and all our skills and talents counted for nothing.

And don't bump the backpack. It's got gelignite in it. If it goes off, your head'll shoot over the rooftops and ping between the chimneys.

The odds were stacked in his enemy's favour. But that was the way it should be. He would succeed or die trying.