Quotes About Risk

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

It's daunting; it's daunting doing something that you are not brilliant at in front of millions of people. But you can't sit back and say no to opportunity. You have to throw yourself in.

When a large financial institution is allowed to fail, you put in jeopardy hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

You'd rather own gold; never own the miner.

Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.

Women live in a world where we are forced to consider our safety at every turn. We minimize risk while we maximize activity. It's this constant balancing act that we do.

It requires guts to leave the chair of chief minister.

With all the risk and danger television sprays at us each day like tear gas, it occurs to me they should simply open each evening's show by saying, Welcome to the Channel Two News; we're very surprised you made it through another day.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Though not fearful of measurable dangers, she feared the unknown.

Over and above the genuine emotion which she raised in his heart there hung the sense that he was casting a die by impulse which he might not have thrown by judgment.

Let us toss as men do

Seven hundred and fifty pounds in the divinest form that money can wear—that of necessary food for man and beast: should the risk be run of deteriorating this bulk of corn to less than half its value, because of the instability of a woman? Never, if I can prevent it! said Gabriel. Such was the argument that

Death and danger do not have to come with trappings.

If you believe you are beyond harm, will you go inside? Will you enter this palace so prominent in blood and glory, follow your face through the web-spanned dark, toward the exquisite chiming of the clavier? The alarms cannot see us. The wet policeman lurking in the doorway cannot see us. Come …

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

How do we define courage? Courage is behaving in a way that conjures up fear. Yes, Larry, courageous people, entrepreneurs, recognize the fear in what they are doing. But they deal with it. They overcome their fears. That's why they are successful.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

If you want something you've never had, you've got to do something you've never done

If you want something you never had, you have to do something you've never done

If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.

If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.