Quotes About Risk

Fight or flight. when you have to jump, do it.

You gotta take chances in this life or you're already dead.

She, Madame M for Mistake, could not predict the future — her own or anybody else's. She could not even predict one hour from now. Not one minute. Not one second. The future was un-predictable.

I love stupid plans.

Ornon said, I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard him once confess that he sometimes thinks the distance is beyond him. He always jumps, Your Majesty. The Thieves are not trained in self-preservation. I beg you would take my advice.

A little danger adds spice to life.

I am a master of foolhardy plans.

Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?' Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his face the floor was littered with tiny bits of glass that glittered in the candlelight. 'You have your answer, Little Thief.

A successful thief doesn't depend on things being unlikely to happen, I said.

If I was going to climb onto an animal eight times my size, I wanted to plan the attempt first.

Keeping a private guard this large is like using a wolf to guard the farm. It may keep off the other wolves, but sooner or later it will eat you.

Cowardice has its own rewards

She is not so secure on her throne that she can risk offending her people's gods. No woman can be.

He couldn't know that I'd overstayed my welcome one night while creeping through his megaron and had crawled up through the space where the pipes of the hypocaust ran to hide in his treasure room. I had slept for a day in stuffy darkness on the ridged tops of his treasure trunks.

I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice, I consider them professional risks.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

A bad boy can be very good for a girl.

Why should I? What do you promise me? Nothing. And everything. A life of danger and adventure. A chance to be yourself. Leave him. Come with me.

One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.

I can't let you take the risk. I love you too much. -Schuyler Then you would rather see me bonded to a women I do not love? -Jack

But even if we're together, it will only kill Jack. -Sky If he will take the risk to be with you, who are you to tell him what to do with his life? -Allegra

Glad you guys are the ones going after v them and not me and Jace. We'd be too scared, all right. Crikey, you're all so brave. I'm not, really, said Evie. But sometimes you have to do the things you have to do.

But Mom thinks we can't live in fear, that we have to try and win legal status. We have to risk it. She's right, your mother, she says. Without risk, there's no reward.

If the girl was anything like Harper, she would have an itemized list and a step-by-step process for carrying out her revenge. So if she really did risk someone recognizing her, it had to be for something important.