Quotes About Risk

Instead, he slammed the throttle, gunning Sewee in a tight arc toward the strange glow. Chance's arms pinwheeled as the boat accelerated beneath him. He toppled backward onto Shelton, who heroically tried to break his fall. "Ugh!" Shelton lay on his back, pancaked by the much larger boy.

You can't walk the last hundred yards, too marshy-mushy. Not that you'd want to. Gator country. Snap, Snap.

The pirates had it right from the beginning.

Mara, anything could kill any one of us, today, tomorrow. The Yuuzhan Vong could pull down one of Coruscant's moons, or we could fall out of a window. Life is risk." -Luke Skywalker

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.

So just ask the question. After all, what's the worst that could happen? "No" isn't really so bad, and "Yes" might take you places you'd never expect.

A boat is always safe in the harbor," she wrote. "But that's not what boats are built for.

Don't worry about hurting me, if that's what you're afraid of. I want to get hurt. At least I´ll feel something for a change.

Those who play with fire should expect to be consumed by it.

The bottom line is, life is for living, sweetie. It's for taking chances and trying to grab up every little piece of happiness you can latch on to.

What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh?

I know I will die in a car crash.

Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face

There's another side to this war. This time, try not to get killed halfway through.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.

So to catch a madman, we have to think like a madman?" "I wouldn't advise it," Cassie said very quietly. "That abyss is darker and colder than you can even imagine.

What a tricky balance of safety and risk it is that brings out the best in us?

The rules are simple: the first one to lose dies.

It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.

And what are we planning on doing once we get there?" "I don't have a plan." "Okay… and I thought 'I *have* a plan' were the scariest words I'd ever heard you say.

Loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment.

Uncertainty is where new value is created. Everything you want in life is on the other side of all your excuses for not trying.

Ultimately, everyone has to ask himself or herself how they're going to fail. We all do, you know, so let's get that out of the way. The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.