Quotes About Risk

Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.

One question, I said. Did you tell me all that because you think I'm going to die? No, he said. It's because you're doing something brave, and I felt I should too. I'll take that as a yes, I said.

Maybe he understood how terrifying it is to do the thing you meant to do.

Periodically someone would encourage her to walk through the woods or try out the mountain bike. Stevie viewed these offers with grave suspicion and declined.

Stevie swept her light around, steering it away from a terrifying crack in the side, and then aimed it squarely forward. I'm going to the end, she said. Seriously? Nate said. This is what I came here for. My dragons are down there. Stevie, I wouldn't ... You're not me, Stevie said. If I die, avenge me. She was joking, but not totally. She had to go, and it also felt like a possible mistake. Some mistakes you have to make.

Gators are just something you have to accept where I come from. Most don't go anywhere near the houses, even though there are lots of delicious children and dogs there. Every once in a while, though, an alligator has a lightbulb moment and decides to take a stroll and see the world a bit.

Only he and Yash planned on making an actual career out of comedy, which was not known for being the most stable of livelihoods.

There I was, creeping down the sweet garbage alley to break into the restaurant….

Falling down a hole is easy. Everyone should try it. You just let the ground go away and allow gravity to do its thing.

HOWARD ROARK LAUGHED. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him.

He knew that the conference was a trap; he knew also that he was walking into it with nothing for any trappers to gain.

I can't be Pollyanna all the time. There is a certain risk in what we do. We have the power to make someone's dream come true, but we also have the power to crush it forever.

It's in the misery of some unnamed slum that the next killer virus will emerge.

subjecting yourself to criticism, and the alternative—playing it safe, avoiding controversy, following the polls—was not only a recipe for mediocrity but a betrayal of the hopes of those citizens who'd put you in office.

and while there were risks promoting what many considered a utopian quest, I told my team that in some ways that was the point; even modest progress on the issue required a bold and overarching vision.

How many of us are tested in that way, asked to risk careers we've long dreamed of in the service of some greater good?

As we sat in the afternoon sun, he gave me a quick tutorial on the burgeoning subprime mortgage market. Whereas banks had once typically held the mortgage loans they made in their own portfolios, a huge percentage of mortgages were now bundled and sold as securities on Wall Street. Since banks could now off-load their risk that any particular borrower might default on their loan, this "securitization" of mortgages had led banks to steadily loosen their lending standards.

Let's be honest. Sometimes art is dangerous, though. And that's why governments sometimes get nervous about art. But one of the things I truly believe is if you try to suppress the arts, then I think you are suppressing the deepest dreams and aspirations of the people.

Given the strong odor of imminent failure

Gates recommended against a raid, although he was open to considering the strike option. He raised the precedent of the April 1980 attempt to rescue the fifty-three American hostages held in Iran, known as Desert One, which had turned catastrophic after a U.S. military helicopter crashed in the desert, killing eight servicemembers. It was a reminder, he said, that no matter how thorough the planning, operations like this could go badly wrong.

You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Drug Testing: A Bad Investment.

Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.