Quotes About Risk

love means breaking all the rules

In love, sometimes what you fear is exactly what you need.

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

Life happens. Love happens. You gotta take some chances.

I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.

People love watching crazy expeditions

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.

Political life loves some volatility.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love.

There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, who have never attempted the kind of creativity of which men and women are potentially capable.

What's the use of having a motorcycle if you can't go tearing around staying out late?" Ralph asked reasonably.

Never mind the danger, never mind what his mother thought. This was living. This was what he wanted to do. On and on and on.

Many neglected and abused children grow up to be adults who are afraid to take risks of striking out on their own. Many will remain dependent on their abusive parents and unable to separate from them. Others leave their abusive parents only to attach themselves to a partner who is controlling.

There are thousands of things that can kill us—slightly more than eight thousand, according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems compiled by the World Health Organization—and we escape every one of them but one. For most of us, that's not a bad deal.

Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.

Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

Australians are the biggest gamblers on the planet – one of the more arresting statistics I saw was that the country has less than 1 per cent of the world's population but more than 20 per cent of its slot machines

I could be dead in a minute," he said grimly, then clutched my forearm. "Look, if I get shot, do me a favor. Call my brother and tell him there's $10,000 buried in a coffee can under his front lawn." "You buried $10,000 under your brother's front lawn?" "No, of course not, but he's a little prick and it would serve him right. Let's go.

I would rather have bowel surgery in the woods with a stick. If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistible currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback.

Never has the promise of glowing skin been more dangerously apt than in the early years of the twentieth century when radium was commonly used as a featured ingredient in beauty products. (credit 7.11) Thanks

Once he inserted a bodkin – a long needle of the sort used for sewing leather – into his eye socket and rubbed it around 'betwixt my eye and the bone4 as near to [the] backside of my eye as I could' just to see what would happen. What happened, miraculously, was nothing – at least, nothing lasting.

On the way out my attention was caught by a machine making a lot of noise. A woman had just won $600. For ninety seconds the machine just poured out money, a waterfall of silver. When it stopped, the woman regarded the pile without pleasure and began feeding it back into the machine. I felt sorry for her. It was going to take her all night to get rid of that kind of money.

Only one thing is certain: we live on a knife edge. In