Quotes About Risk

As I've mentioned before, continuing a pregnancy is 12 to 14 times as potentially fatal as ending it. That means abortion is always potentially lifesaving for a pregnant woman.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

If you let the fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes, and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

Live dangerously. There's a lot to be said for sinning.

Attention to how media messages address the virus, its transmission and risk varied significantly across types of coverage and by the nation that produces it,

might cover two nights. You and your mistress will have to scale

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.

The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.

Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

Having children is a lottery and you never know what you are going to draw out. Perhaps it is as well I got none.

It (proof by contradiction) is a far finer gambit than any chess gambit: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

Most importantly, remember that there are no guarantees in a gunfight, particularly when it comes to stopping power.

Memento Audere Semper

If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both.