Quotes About Risk

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

But luck is just throwing dice.

Around this time I made my plan. Dangerous possibly, crazy for sure. All I can say is, you try living in crazytown for a while and see what you cook up.

Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future?

I am not one to argue with wild mushroomers who claim the distinction of being still alive.

All those hopes placed in such a precarious vessel.

People love to believe in danger, as long as it's you in harm's way

So that was me promising Emmy that life is to be trusted. I knew better. I should have let her go with her gut: Never get back on the horse, because it's going to throw you every damn chance it gets.

life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don't rule it out.

These are more dangerous times than we ever have known.

When one's time approached, how much better to go out in a blaze of glorious lunacy, on a gnu, than to dribble one's life away in a rocking chair. Alexander

for anyone, more like mounting a wild stallion in a Texas rodeo and endeavoring to stay in the saddle on a bucking horse. And to be aware that danger always lurked round every corner

Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports, the rest are merely games.

If you knew at the outset what you understood at the end, would you make the same choices, take the same risks, accept the same sacrifices? No. No one would. You can't appreciate the weight of that burden until after you've assumed it. You can't comprehend what it really means.

What was that Churchill saying? "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." That's what this felt like.

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

If you want to get something you never had before, you have to do something you've never done before.

I had convinced myself I had become safe enough in Rio to see her. I realized now I'd been wrong. The disease I carried was still communicable.

I wouldn't want to try to take this guy out with anything less than a scoped rifle. Which is something that's hard to confuse with expiration by natural causes. The hell with it, I thought. Risks are one thing. This looks like suicide. If Tatsu wanted him dead that much, I'd recommend a six-man squad and firearms. Much as I would have liked to do something to buy Tatsu's continued goodwill, this one wasn't worth it.

I considered. As Tatsu noted, if word got out, the efficacy of the camera network would be compromised. But there was more.

Strangeland's confidence in her, the risks she was willing to run . . . it was all producing a roiling mess of emotion she couldn't deal with right now. She managed to push it away and handed

If you want something you've never had before, you have to do something you've never done before.

Boxers wear tape to protect their hands. But you get dependent on the tape, and then you don't know how to hit someone without it. Even Mike Tyson once broke a hand when he hit another fighter barehanded in a late night brawl. In a real fight, if you break your hand, you probably just lost the fight. If you were fighting for your life, you probably just lost that, too.

I learned a long time ago not to trust, that faith is to life what sticking your chin out is to boxing.