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Quotes About Risk

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.
~ Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.
~ Nicholas Sparks
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
~ Oriah Dreamer
I dedicate all my time to baseball, because when you come from where I come from, you don't want to risk anything.
~ Vladimir Guerrero
Life is short. You better get out there and do what you want to do while you can.
~ Tony Gonzalez
When you got a guy hanging over the cliff holding on with one hand, you don't want him to get his other hand up there, you want to go ahead and stomp on it
~ Trot Nixon
Sometimes you don't just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them - if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
~ Daniel Dennett
Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued
~ Fred Thompson
Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
~ George Horace Lorimer
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
~ Bruce Dickinson
Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.
~ Jeff Goldblum
So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.
~ Joan Blos
He might want to watch where he lands when tackling that guy, because he could really hurt his hand if it gets stepped on.
~ John Madden
I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.
~ Michael Jackson
Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.
~ Ralph Fletcher
That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.
~ Ray Bradbury
Biker chicks want the bad boy.
~ Theo Rossi
First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.
~ Tim Burton
I'd be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air
~ X. J. Kennedy
Do ye want me?" he whispered. "Sassenach, will ye take me - and risk the man that I am, for the sake of the man ye knew?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Boo: "Go talk to her." Callum: "About what?" Boo: "Anything." Callum: "You want me to walk up to her and say, 'Are you a ghost?'" Boo: "I do that." Callum: "I love it when you get it wrong.
~ Maureen Johnson
You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.
~ Van Morrison
Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara
~ Aaron Allston
The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.
~ Afia Nathaniel