Quotes About Risk

It's so much easier to have a crush on someone who you know isn't going to respond-it makes it nice and safe and you never have to humiliate yourself by getting knocked back.

Besides, let's face it, a joint mortgage is for twenty-five years. And unlike with a marriage, you can get insurance to cover yourself if something goes wrong.

What followed for two hours was such an adventure as only wretched amateurs would indulge in...

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you'd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

sea-wolves raiding at will, who risk their lives to plunder other men?

he strode among the champions in fear for the shepherd of the people, lest he be hurt, and all their labor slip away into nothing.

The cautious seldom err or write great poetry.

There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust. But we lean forward nonetheless because, despite all risks and rational argument, we believe that the path we are choosing is right and best thing to do. We refuse to be bystanders, even if we do not know exactly where our actions will lead.

There have always been Southern whites who, at great risk, pioneered in the movement for racial justice. I was lucky to know some of them: Myles Horton, founder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee; Carl and Anne Braden, editors of the Southern Courier in Louisville, Kentucky; Pat Watters and Margaret Long, journalists with the Atlanta Constitution; reporters Fred Powledge and Jack Nelson.

the enemy is whoever wants to get you killed, whichever side they're on.

revolutionary suicide does not mean that i and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. we have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. when reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death.

It's tougher to look than to leap.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." ? Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba…

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Pray to God, but row away from the rocks.

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow what a ride!

This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.

The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.