Quotes About Risk

When lightning is obviously about to strike a certain tree, one must consider sitting under another.

In fact, I believe that theological interpretation runs the risk of jeopardizing what it means to be a responsible biblical hermeneut, by attempting to overlook or negate, whether consciously or not, a biblical hermeneutic.

What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act – and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

I've never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, 'don't try to fly too high,' or whether it might also be thought of as 'forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

Boldly live as you've never lived before

What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.

But a real vision, a real change, isn't safe," Maya said. "You don't pay a workshop fee for it, you pay with your life.

Decide what is sacred to you, and put your best life energies at its service. Make that the focus of your studies, your work, the test for your pleasures and your relationships. Don't ever let fear or craving for security turn you aside." When you serve your passion, when you are willing to risk yourself for something, your greatest creative energies are released. Hard work is required, but nothing is more joyful

Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.

Awakening and owning the dreams that God has placed in our hearts isn't about getting stuff or attaining something. It's about embracing who we are and who he has created us to be. In him. He is our dream come true, and the one true love of our life. But we can't love him with our whole hearts when our hearts are asleep. To love Jesus means to risk coming awake, to risk wanting and desiring.

Suddenly, you could find yourself trapped and alone, in a situation that was out of control. It was like being trapped in a cage with an angry bear—in fact, the most dangerous part of a tornado was often referred to as the bear's cage. And it could all happen in the blink of an eye. Even so, Tim kept trying to pilot the van closer and closer to the storm.

Really, boy, unless you're ready to deal with the monster, you shouldn't go looking under the bed.

Hemen ÅŸöyle düÅŸündüm, eÄŸer bir avans veriyorlarsa temiz bir iÅŸ olmal?, bu ateÅŸli arazilerde mezar taÅŸlar?n?n bizdekinden üç kat h?zl? çoÄŸald???n? biliyordum, ama insan genç olunca ateÅŸin ve ölümün her zaman baÅŸkalar?na s?çrayaca??n? düÅŸünür.

The longest voyage of discovery, the boldest adventure in the records of our race, had begun.

That is how our arch-adventurer likes to live, moving on from explosion to explosion of fortune and misfortune.

Unknown and unsuspected tender zones of feeling- but also, it must be admitted, very dangerous ones!

Perhaps I am taking a certain risk in placing more faith in you than in my professional conscience — ah well, I'll take the responsibility for that. After all, we both mean equally well by this poor sick girl.

Ä°nsan genç olunca ateÅŸin ve ölümün her zaman baÅŸkalar?na s?çrayaca??n? düÅŸünür.

hiçbir eksiÄŸi olmayan birçok kad?n için bunlar, umutsuzluktan kaynaklanan sürekli bir tatminsizlik kadar a??r sonuçlar doÄŸuruyordu. TokluÄŸun k??k?rt?c?l???, açl?ktan az say?lmazd? ve Irene'nin hayat?n?n tehlikesiz, emniyetli yan?, içinde bir macera arzusu uyand?r?yordu.

Al clarear el día del martes 20 de septiembre de 1519, se levan ruidosamente las anclas, ondean al viento las velas y truenan las bocas de fuego hacia la tierra que va desapareciendo. Ha comenzado el viaje de exploración más largo, la aventura más audaz que registra la historia de la humanidad.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

I don't think I shall marry if I'm asked. There's too much occupational risk.

Nur wer Angst hat, will gefährlich aussehen.

As a free solo climber, when trying extremely difficult or dangerous movements on rock for the first time, I try it first with the safety of a rope.