Quotes About Risk

In some parts of the city, curiosity didn't just kill the cat, it threw it in the river with lead weights tied to its feet.

Say what you like. Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.

It is not a good idea to spray finest brandy across the room, especially when your lighted cigar is in the way.

Plan A had worked. Plan B had failed. Everything depended on Plan C, and there was one drawback to this: he had only ever planned as far as B.

If he went over the falls now, he might get to the bottom before they did. That wasn't a good sentence, however he tried it.

If you're too afraid of going astray you won't go anywhere

Well, she knew the risks when she got the job," said the Dean. "What?" said the Senior Wrangler. "Are you saying that before you apply for the job of housekeeper of a university you should seriously consider being eaten by sharks on the shores of some mysterious continent thousands of years before you are born?" "She didn't ask many questions at the interview, I know that.

I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words.

Creating a monument is a matter of taste and values and the means to get it made. Once you monumentalize a person, place, or thing, you run the risk of worship. And what we worship, for better or for worse, freezes the story.

Dare to be burned by the heat of our own ambitious hearts.

On that same trip, my brother and I camped against a red rock wall and in the morning when we awoke, a boulder had fallen between us.

That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.

This is what love does to you, Jane thought. It makes you afraid, not brave. It gives the world carnivorous teeth that are poised at any moment to rip away chunks of your life.

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It's just something I'll have to live with... The possibility of getting sick. Not knowing if I'll live another two years or forty years. I keep telling myself, I could walk outside and get hit by a bus. That's the way life is. Just surviving another day comes with its own risk.

Tehlike yaln?zca soyut bir kavramken korkusuz olmak kolayd?r.

When you understand what's involved in winning, as do professional gamblers, you'll tend to bet more during a winning streak and less during a losing streak. However, the average person does exactly the opposite: he or she bets more after a series of losses and less after a series of wins.

In fact, what obscures vision and exposes people to more risk is not an outward mindset, which stays fully alive to and aware of others, but an inward one, which turns its attention away from others while simultaneously provoking resistance.

Ein Optimist ist ein Mensch, der ein Dutzend Austern bestellt, in der Hoffnung, sie mit der Perle, die er darin findet, bezahlen zu können.

Überhaupt ohne Leichtsinn ist das ganze Leben keinen Schuss Pulver wert. (S.109)

know too well that I am but taking to my arms a variable creature like myself, whose wishes are apt to become insistent and burdensome in proportion to the decrease of her beauty and interest?" These are the men, who, unwilling to risk the manifold contingencies of an authorized connection, are led to consider the advantages of a less-binding union, a temporary companionship. They seek to seize the happiness of life without paying the cost of their indulgence.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.