Quotes About Risk

Heroes only need to be brave when there's a good reason. It would be stupid to risk your life without a purpose.

When your only option is to jump, you jump and try to make it work.

Not that I lack confidence in the outcome, Ferrin said, but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?

This is my risk to take.Not yours. I can live with getting myself killed. Technically, you can't live if you get yourself killed.

Mira admitted. "This is my risk to take. Not yours. I can live with getting myself killed." "Technically, you can't live if you get killed," Jace pointed out.

Brandon Mull

If you go where you do not belong, you could open the door to vicious retribution from powerful enemies.

I want you to appreciate what you're up against. You will have to succeed where multitudes have failed. You'll have to accomplish something that the mightiest wizard in the history of Lyrian didn't dare to attempt.

If you're going to take a huge risk, and you want to stay out of trouble, it really helps if your plan actually works.

People who actually fix problems sometimes have to take risks.

Rollan didn't like when his horse had to walk near a drop-off, as they were now. He was allergic to the whole falling thing.

Try more things. Cross some lines.

At work, you'll have to be patient at the risky enterprise of talking to other people; so little progress in this since the Pleistocene.

She wanted nothing more than to accept his shocking proposal, but she could not risk losing Ned. So in the end

I see you have prepared the chessboard. He grinned a devilish grin. I thought we could play for it. I win, you marry me. You win, I marry you. That way we both win (p.120)

I was deep behind enemy lines, in the very heart of the enemy camp.

but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything, and she says calmly... glaring at me,If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.

You should never mistake affection for … passion," I warn her. "It can be … not good. It can … get you into, well, trouble.

we pose a serious threat to the very existence of humanity.

Enter faith, and a whole new factor enters the equation. Words like "impossible" seem out of place. Despair and cynicism feel like insults to God. Hope grows, and love, and therefore motivation to care, to give, to act, to try, to dream, to risk.

On this particular expedition, we shall travel to a vast desolate, white expanse stretching onward to the horizon in all directions... A place where you could gain nothing or lose everything and no one would ever know. A place well-beyond that which you think you understand.

Never trust a river, Dylan. Give a river even half a chance, and it'll try to kill you.

Avoid holding locks during lengthy computations or operations at risk of not completing quickly such as network or console I/O.

the universe, according to quantum mechanics, participates in a game of chance.