Quotes About Risk

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process.

I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a not too heavy cost.

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.

That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

The frog atop the stack of coins dares not jump.

The manner in which we gamble defines the stakes. Win or lose, it shall be absolute.' The

Every story instructs. The teller ignores this truth at peril.

Never bargain with a man who has nothing to lose.

Only two kinds of people die in battle, Fiddler had once said, fools and the unlucky.

If we are to live, we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name.

Aye, Master. Only, how do we know where that dhenrabi might take us?" "Oh, we know that, most certainly. Why, the dhenrabi breeding beds, of course." "Oh.

If we are to live,' Rake went on, 'we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name. There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail – should we fall – we will know that we have lived.' Endest

And out there, in that unending cavalcade of danger, I intend to enjoy myself.

And what about him? What's his name again, Throatslitter? Did his ma decide on that for her little one, do you think?' 'Can't say,' Balm replied. 'Give a toddler a knife and who knows what'll happen.

No one could claim that Preda Norlo Trumb was the most perceptive of individuals, and the half-dozen Letherii guards under his command, who stood in a twitching clump behind the Preda, were now faced with the very real possibility that Trumb's stupidity was going to cost them their lives.

Wits enough to be curious, not smart enough to be cautious.

Beware the leader who has nothing to lose.' Her people were proud of their wise sayings. And yet now, in their mortal silence, wisdom and pride proved a perfect match in value. Namely: worthless.

When love turned into a game, people got hurt

A releasing of said tension, a dying of the sparks. I now fear getting depressed." "The risk of achieving what you wish for.

his life had been rather headlong. He felt as if he was plunging down a steep hill, for ever but one step from bone-snapping, blood-spraying disaster. Used to be he thrived on such feelings. Proof that he was alive. Yet…too many friends had fallen to the wayside on the journey. Far too many, and he was reluctant to let others take their places

they make me think of that boy, the way he always got into things he shouldn't have. Wits enough to be curious, not smart enough to be cautious.