Quotes About Risk

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

Now take care, Sir Gawain, Not to shrink from danger. This is quite an ordeal That you have taken on.

Were I to take these warnings seriously, I would immediately reboard the Samsun and go back the way I came. The only risk a tourist runs in Venice is having to pay too much for a cappuccino.

Those who want to die in bed and never stray far from it are already dead.

Grupisisene hirm peletab hirmu välismaailma ees.

Üleminekud on alati ebakindlad ja ohtlikud.

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

N"ayez pas peur du kamikaze. Ce qui l'intéresse dans le risque de mort, ce n'est pas le risque, c'est la mort. Ce qu'il aime dans la guerre, ce n'est pas "vaincre ou mourir" mais mourir et ne surtout pas vaincre. Sa grande affaire, ce n'est pas, comme dit Clausewitz, proportionner des efforts à la force de résistance de l'ennemi, le renverser, le réduire - mais mourir. (ch. 16 Debray, Kojève et le prix du sang)

Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand

She slipped free crusty pies filled with apple-flavored lumps of sugar to the runaway rent boys she befriended who operated around the station With no idea that in years to come she'd be attending their funerals They didn't realize unprotected sex meant a dance with death Nobody did

I love performing. I love being a provocateur. I love putting myself in situations that are uncomfortable and that I have to get out of. I think I've been that way my whole life.

In practical terms, the trick to successful participation in a high-risk sport is to acknowledge that bad things can happen, make every effort to prevent those things from happening, and be prepared to confront accidents when they do occur.

whenever complacency took hold in our diving careers, disaster was sure to follow.

the normalization of risk in the lives of her high-risk subjects.

Bernie Chowdhury

And it is a public health issue, forcing sick individuals into public spaces where they risk spreading disease.

He was weak on philosophy and an excellent driver, but his driving was a lot more dangerous than his philosophy.

Sapete come si sviluppa la perla nell'ostrica? Un corpo estraneo insopportabile, per esempio un granello di sabbia, penetra dentro al guscio, e l'ostrica, per seppellire quel granello, secerne calce; e in questo processo rischia la morte. Allora, dico io, al diavolo la perla, purché l'ostrica resti sana!

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

Because sentences are for making," I finally said. "Sentences are the risks we take.

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you

Life is full of what-ifs. You can't let it hold you back. If you do, you're not really living at all . . . just kind of going through the motions with no meaning.

Figuring out whether a deal was worth doing was nothing if not an exercise in calculating risk: did the size of the potential return justify the risk of all the things that could go wrong? That's a question that every executive at every company has to be willing to tackle. A company that lacked the