Quotes About Risk

As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.

There are a lot of reporters who I feel are a lot more courageous and fool-hardy than I am. Maybe at the top I'd put Dexter Filkins. He's an extraordinary man in terms of his nerve and ability to get into dangerous situations and tell the story cogently. He's bringing back real human stories. I admire that.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

Certainly in my own body of reporting, I was very acutely aware of the risk of any mischaracterized journalism and the need for anything I put out to be absolutely bulletproof.

On the golf course, playing cards, running to the casinos, betting on college and pro football, it keeps spilling over to the next step, the next step, the next step. I basically started giving people information that I was receiving in the locker room, injury reports.

I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort of compelled to do it, but at the same time, it's so frightening. But I think that the things that frighten me the most in life are the things I should be doing.

At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you've got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.

You can't put a gun in the hands of someone who represents a danger to themselves or society.

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

I think to the extent Republicans depart from the historic commitment, we do so at our peril.

I've had a bunch of accidents. If you hunt, you're gonna have some accidents.

Hunters get lost all the time. There's just an outcry against climbers because a lot of people don't understand climbers and they think they're crazy.

If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.

Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

When you are too confident, that's when you hurt yourself.

A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

When I'm scared of hurting myself, I start to overthink things and won't go for it.

If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.

I did rough hustling, what they call 'playing against the wall.' I just played myself with the players, so I would pay; I would make them shill. I would pay certain players and then take from others.

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

I'd never gone as a kid to an ice rink. There was always that fear that I'd break my leg and it would affect my career.