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Quotes About Risk

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)
~ Simone de Beauvoir
You're dangerous," he says. "Why?" "Because you make me believe in the impossible
~ Simone Elkeles
You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having.
~ Simone Elkeles
Playing with fire doesn't necessarily get you burned.
~ Simone Elkeles
If you tiptoe into cold water, you're missing out on the rush of plunging in headfirst.
~ Simone Elkeles
being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.
~ Simone Elkeles
I turn around and wrap my arms around his neck. "Whoa, girl," he says taken aback. "I thought we were keepin' this thing between us a secret. I hate to tell you, but a bunch of north siders from Fairfield are right over there. And they're starin' at us" "I don't care. Not anymore" "Why" "You only live once
~ Simone Elkeles
What would it take for you to go out with me?
~ Simone Elkeles
Being brave is not as easy as it looks.
~ Simone Elkeles
I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up as drug dealers.
~ Simone Elkeles
What's the use in having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?
~ Simone Elkeles
Now I understand all those chick flicks I made fun of. 'Cause now I'm the sappy dork willing to risk it all for the girl. Estoy enamorado...I'm in love.
~ Simone Elkeles
Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.
~ Simone Elkeles
He suggests there are only three reasons why Ryanair might fail - 'nuclear war in Europe, a major accident o believing our own bullshit
~ Siobhan Creaton
Luck never goes alone, but with risk.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
The only moment you won't even see an opportunity, is when you try nothing.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Throw the dice not a towel.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
~ Sir Edmund Hillary
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.
~ Sir Ken Robinson
si no estás preparado para equivocarte, nunca se te ocurrirá nada original.
~ Sir Ken Robinson
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
~ Sir Walter Ralegh
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.
~ Sir Walter Scott
Come, friends, who plow the sea,Truce to navigation,Take another station;Let's vary piraceeWith a little burglaree.
~ Sir William S. Gilbert