Quotes About Risk

Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

Simone Weil was surely right when she asked, "Isn't it the greatest possible disaster, when you are wrestling with God, not to be beaten?" God's invitation to the spiritual life is a call to the high-risk venture of being loved more fiercely than we ever might have dreamed.

The spiritual life involves risk. There's no way around it. The paradox of biblical religion is that God cannot be understood, much less managed. Coming to terms with ultimate mystery is always dangerous. But to our amazement, encountering the Holy can also mean being strangely and unaccountably loved.

There was a saying in Provence: "Those foolish enough to keep a snake as a companion will get bitten sooner or later".

For a while I just sat there reveling in the pure pleasure of his touch. The scent of him was still in the air. I didn't want to breathe and risk dispelling the traces of him all around me.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

How am I looking at you?" "Like I'm Little Red to your big bad wolf." "Well," he said slowly, "I do want to eat you.

he already knew that a few more days with her would be too dangerous, too potent...and he didn't want to break her heart. Not when he knew just how sweet she was, how innocent.

Now for the really fun part," Jenny said when Maya was done. "Here's a box of matches. Start lighting." Maya's eyes widened. With this much fuel on the dry grass, and with the wind blowing a gale, even one match could instantly combust and burn her. "You're crazy.

I want people to see that true love changes everything. That risking your heart for the right person can give back even the things that you thought were gone forever. I didn't think I'd ever be able to trust again. To love. But you showed me that I could own every part of myself—the good and the bad—without shame. Without fear.

A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.

Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.

good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.

one of the first rules of police work is that trouble will always come looking for you, so there's no point looking for it.

A romantic," said Nightingale much, much later. "The most dangerous people on Earth.

You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.

I didn't ask why anybody would want to risk the electric two-step on the tracks because, as police, all three of us knew that there wasn't anything so stupid that somebody wouldn't try it sooner or later.

I don't know why Nightingale was so surprised—I barely knew four and a half spells and you couldn't have got me to give it up, and that's despite close brushes with death by vampire, hanging, malignant spirit, riot, tigerman, and the ever-present risk of overdoing the magic and getting a brain aneurysm.

The Fire Brigade recognise only two kinds of people at a fire, victims and obstacles, and if you don't want to be either it's best to stay back.

A romantic," said Nightingale. "The most dangerous people on earth.

never run a game of Hide the Lady if you can't remember where you've put the queen, because some people embrace forensic accounting as a blood sport.

But risking a fair fight – not so easy. That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of the 'don't hold me back' while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.

If you're afraid of wolves,' said Varvara Sidorovna, 'don't go to the woods.

What have we got to lose?" I said. Nightingale looked up and gave me a strange, sad smile. "Oh, everything, Peter," he said. "But then, such is life.