Quotes About Risk

You will find, as you mature, that most people are weak. And lazy. Weak, lazy people whine and complain. Otherwise, they would have to take a risk to make things right. And the wrong they suffer often don't need righting because they exist only inside their minds.

An adventure is somebody else slogging through the mud and snow while suffering from trench foot, ringworm, dysentery and starvation being chased by people with their hearts set on murder or more. I have been there. I have done that, playing both parts. I do not recommend it. Be content with a nice farm or shop. Make lots of babies and bring them up to be good people.

Wyszed?em my?l?c, ?e ja i Kompania wdepn?li?my w to po uszy. K?opoty ze wszystkich stron. ?onglowali?my zbyt wielk? liczb? pi?ek naraz. Z tym, ?e nie by?y to pi?ki, lecz no?e o zatrutych ostrzach.

Nie maj?c w sobie ani cz?steczki bohatera, wzi??em nogi za pas i pobieg?em w poprzek zbocza. Okaza?o si? to m?drym posuni?ciem.

juggling knives with poisoned edges.

so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

Welcome to the world of Cahills. If it isn't impossible, it isn't worth doing.

You're going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone's going to break it for you.

or the fool who does something stupid and gets everybody killed.

You're going to break your idiot neck one day, or someone's going to break it for you." My dad.

Risks aren't risks when the consequences are no worse than your regular life.

Hard experience had taught her that the biggest danger often lay in those factors that could not be prepared for.

Good things happen when you get out of your comfort zone and try stuff.

If it wasn't for Randy, I never would have taken the bike ride that turned into my first run-in with Serenity's invisible barrier. That was a horrible experience, but I'm grateful for it now. Without it, I might never have stumbled on the truth about Project Osiris. We could all still be lab rats in the experiment.

He stepped over the velvet rope and seated himself at the harpsichord, cracking his knuckles with a flourish. "You're bluffing!" Dan accused. "You

That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb.

You can't break eggs without making an omelet, said Butler sententiously.

there'll always be people who are afraid of living and afraid of dying. And there are always more of them than there are risk-takers, the people who bring innovation into every area, with or without drugs.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

So one always starts a journey in a strange land -- taking too many precautions, until one tires of the exertion and abandons care in the worst spot of all.

I was afraid of burglars and Indian thugs and snakes and fires and Jack the Ripper, when I should have been afraid of thirty years in a bank and a take-over bid and a premature retirement and the Deuil du Roy Albert.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. (The Power and the Glory)

Whims so often end in bankruptcy.

La había escuchado con asombro y con cierta inquietud. Por primera vez advertía los peligros que me acechaban. Me sentí como arrastrado tras ella hacia una absurda empresa de caballeros andantes como Sancho Panza tras Don Quijote, sólo que en busca de lo que ella llamaba diversión, en vez de hidalguía.