Quotes About Risk

Failing my soul mate to anchor me, I risk nothing.

I must have stood there for five minutes trying to talk myself into opening it. The unknown is a vast paralyzing limbo. I'd like to tell you that the monster under the bed is rarely as bad as your fear of it, but in my experience it's almost always worse.

He was waiting, one strong hand outstretched. She had no idea what he was doing, or where he thought he was going. He was asking her to say "yes" without knowing. He was asking for that leap of faith Gwen had warned her about. For the second time in less than forty-eight hours, the man was asking her to throw all caution to the wind and leap with him, trusting that he wouldn't let her fall.

When you have a secret that folks would kill you for, you sit mum on it. From everyone.

There are no certainties but one. Death will come. My philosophy has always been: feckin' A—all the more reason to ride the hell out of it! Milk life for all you can get. Howl with laughter, scream with fear. Get sloshed on every color of the rainbow.

If she makes a single misstep, you're dead." I feel the blood drain from my face. I always misstep. Misstep is my middle name, right after Mega. I can't not misstep. I have feet.

Still irritable and defiant, despite her fear. She's a piece of work. "That's a risk we're both taking. We don't know each other. Do you really want to stay in the bottle?" "For now," she says tightly, "I think so, yes." "Fine. Have it your way. If you come out, you must come directly to me, and I will set the parameters you must obey. Deal?" "Deal.

What can one word hurt? It isn't like letting a woman have the power for a change can bring about the end of my world as I know it, for fuck's sake.

I almost die a lot. Superheroes do.

You look at the world, assess your odds of survival in light of current circumstances, and choose the course that offers the best chance for whatever it is you want.

Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.

As she'd already learned to her cost, there were no guarantees in life, no guarantees that the person you loved would be there from one day to the next, no guarantees about anything at all.

I wanted to touch the edges of my life - the same instinct, I think, that inspires young mortals to flip tractors and enlist in foreign wars.

Live long enough, and your life becomes your own to gamble with again

The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

In this city, you have to risk your life; go farther, and pay more to be poor.

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

Take away security to leave room for experience.

Outside your comfort zone is the only place worth living.

That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.

The cave you most fear to enter contains the greatest treasure – Joseph Campbell

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it. Testability is falsifiability; but there are degrees of testabilty: some theories are more testable, more exposed to refutation, than others; they take, as it were, greater risks.

Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.