Quotes About Risk

Devriminiz ad?na korkuyorum beyefendiciÄŸim; çünkü henüz uçar? olmay? öÄŸrenememiÅŸsiniz

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.

The people who most often invited trouble were the willfully ignorant who didn't want to believe trouble was possible, so they dismissed the potential for it. You couldn't be ready for what you never considered or were unwilling to consider.

Confidence can be a dangerous thing. Fear can keep you safe, sometimes.

To Chase, a quad would be just a bit of fun. While he was taking care of them, he'd be telling you a story about some real trouble.

Something in this world always wants to kill you. Don't forget that.

It was foolish to trust in luck once; twice was arrogance of the worst kind.

You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!' IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE. 'She's a child!' shouted Crumley. IT'S EDUCATIONAL. 'What if she cuts herself?' THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.

He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.

Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying 'Got rocks in your head?' to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong...But it might.

The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.

All Fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.

When Mister Safety Catch Is Not On, Mister Crossbow Is Not Your Friend.

I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it, because it's so-o good when you breathe the air up there. And you know you'll die falling.