Quotes About Risk

These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.

Falling isn't so bad, you know. It's only the landing that hurts.

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home.

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But at least the way was clear now. When you step off a cliff, your life takes a very definite direction.

Nobby would nick anything and dodge anything, but he wasn't bad. You could trust him with your life, although you'd be daft to trust him with a dollar.

Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found reason not to be. He would step off a high building in the happy state of mind of someone who intended to deal with the problem of the ground when it presented itself.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate

Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way down to the pommel. Sooner juggle torches in a tar pit than mess with real magic. Sooner lie down in front of a thousand elephants.

never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls off

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

You're wondering whether I really would cut your throat, panted Magrat. I don't know either. Think of the fun we could have together, finding out

When you have dived off a cliff, your only hope is to press for the abolition of gravity.

You don't understand!" screamed the tourist, above the terrible noise of the wingbeats. "All my life I've wanted to see dragons!" "From the inside?" shouted Rincewind. "Shut up and ride!

A farmer who neglects to sow ordinary seeds only loses the crop, whereas anyone who forgets to sow seeds of a crop that has already been harvested twelve months before risks disturbing the entire fabric of causality, not to mention acute embarrassment.

Haven't you noticed that by running away you end up in more trouble?" "Yes, but, you see, you can run away from that, too," said Rincewind. "That's the beauty of the system. Dead is only for once, but running away is for ever.

Good Omens was written by two people who at the time were not at all well known except by the people who already knew them. They weren't even certain it would sell.

It's a certainty, but it just might work.

And no cheating, Lady. he said. But who could cheat Fate? she asked. He shrugged.No-one. Yet everyone tries.

It's not gambling to play against someone who's no good. It's common sense.

Being a witch meant going into places you didn't want to go.