Quotes About Risk

The path was so narrow, and the drop so steep, that I was sure I would fall if I released my grip.

Ogni volta che agiamo, pur con le migliori intenzioni, ogni volta che interferiamo con le cose del mondo, rischiamo di provocare un disastro che forse non dipende da noi, ma che non si verificherebbe senza il nostro intervento.

That's a hell of a health plan—an Afghan with a Kalashnikov pointed at your doctor.

Some time on the next day we would be free, or we would be dead.

The unclean humidity of his working conditions, however, accelerated the risk of infection.

Aren't you flirting with danger yourself?

When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action. Some of the worst wrongs, Karla once said, were caused by people who tried to change things.

Why do you stay here, when you can leave?

I courted danger because danger was one of the few things strong enough to help me forget what I'd lost.

I was sure he'd calculated the risks, and decided it was safe. And every day of my life was a risk.

A Dutch mercenary in Kinshasa once told me that the only time he ever stopped hating himself was when the risk he faced became so great that he acted without thinking or feeling anything at all. I wished he hadn't said it to me because I knew exactly what he meant.

Are you afraid of heights? Only when I'm on them!

When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action. Some of the worst wrongs, Karla once said, were caused by people who tried to change things. I

Când acÈ›ion?m, chiar cu cele mai bune intenÈ›ii, când ne amestec?m în cursul lumii, risc?m de fiecare dat? s? provoc?m un alt dezastru care s-ar putea s? nu fie direct înf?ptuit de noi, dar care n-ar fi posibil f?r? intervenÈ›ia noastr?. Unele dintre cele mai rele nedrept??i au fost provocate de oamenii care au încercat la un moment dat s? schimbe lucrurile.

Quando agimos, mesmo com a melhor das intenções, quando interferimos com o mundo, arriscamos sempre um desastre, que poderá não sair da nossa mão, mas que não aconteceria sem a nossa intervenção.

Every virtuous act has some dark secret in its heart, Khaderbhai once told me, and every risk we take contains a mystery that can't be solved.

And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.

I looked at the face—the long, fine nose and wide brow and upward curving lips—and wondered, not for the first time, and not for the last, if my love for him would cost me my life.

The best bet I made that won was on the Tampa Bay Rays - who had never had a winning season in franchise history - to advance to the 2008 World Series.

For five or six years, I didn't play in some of the good games leading up to the World Series of Poker, because with so many below-average players there, I reasoned it messed up my game.

Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,000 or so feet high. It was a public structure, very easy to access. And Sydney Harbour Bridge was half-and-half: a bridge, in the middle of the night. The World Trade Center was the end of the world. Electronic devices, police dogs.

I started putting a wire up in secret and performing without permission. Notre Dame, the Sydney Harbor Bridge, the World Trade Center. And I developed a certitude, a faith that convinced me that I will get safely to the other side. If not, I will never do that first step.

If you want another world war, run up unsustainable debts.

The Human Rights Convention was written by Conservatives in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was designed to combat the risk of another Holocaust, and to try to stop people being sent to prison camps without trial.