Quotes About Risk

Sex desire is the most powerful of human desires. When driven by this desire, men develop keenness of imagination, courage, willpower, persistence, and creative ability unknown to them at other times. So strong and impelling is the desire for sexual contact that men freely run the risk of life and reputation to indulge it.

Over-caution is as bad as under-caution. Both are extremes to be guarded against. Life itself is filled with the element of chance.

Definiteness of decision always requires courage, sometimes very great courage. The fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence staked their lives on the decision to affix their signatures to that document.

OVER-CAUTION. The person who takes no chances, generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing. Over-caution is as bad as under-caution. Both are extremes to be guarded against. Life itself is filled with the element of chance.

It is the hand of God and the lack of fire escapes

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.

Mercado urged instead that people with the same defect not marry, because their children would be at greatest risk of developing the same hereditary disease. All people should seek out a spouse as different from themselves in as many individual characteristics as possible.

I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care.

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

A félelem a józan ész jele. Csak a kötöznivaló bolond nem fél semmitÅ'l.

Who said anything about hospitals? That's where people die. Hospitals are statistically the most dangerous places in the world.

and you decide you want to learn how to rob a bank, or how to set one up, which is much the same thing, come and see me...

It's not such a bad idea. Self-deceit is the key to all impossible ventures.

Las estadísticas lo demuestran: más gente muere en la cama que en la trinchera.

Creía haber ganado el mundo en una hora y que todavía no sabía que podía perderlo en un minuto»

Tori gives a nervous nod. She imagines that all sorts of things could go wrong with it. The human body isn't supposed to be transformed into such a device. She assumes that she'll be calling this number a lot.

If you don't look for Trouble, how can you know it's there?

It was fun playing with fire, but she wasn't a girl who liked to get burned.

As Michele lifted one bare-toed foot over the side she squealed. A crab had escaped from one of the pots and was scurrying around the bottom of the boat. Super choice, she said to Brian. Stranded on a pirate island or eaten alive by a crab.

Did he think Brendan planned to snatch the laptop and throw it down a crevasse in a glacier?

Montreal November 1704 Temperature 34 degrees It was the work of a warrior to enter the cave, jab the bear awake and tempt him, grumpy and stuporous, to come out where he could be shot. No fur was so warm, no meat so good, no claws better ornaments. Of course, one swipe of that great paw could break a man's jaw or rip off an arm, but that was why it was so admired and why the warrior who goaded the bear got the claws: such impressive risk.

I had hardly ever seen Great Granny Webster at that time, and yet her feelings interested me. She was little more to me than the silhouette of a formidable old woman dressed in black who appeared occasionally at family gatherings and made us feel that she was taking a dangerous risk with her upright spine when circumstances forced her to bend over and kiss her great-grandchildren.

but love without passion may also deteriorate into as pale a version of the original as benign tolerance, and there is the risk that it may die completely or turn into resentment or disrespect, or worse.