Quotes About Risk

Pioneers are people with arrows in their backs")

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

Publicly traded companies die through acquisitions, mergers, and bankruptcies at the same rate regardless of how well established they are or what they actually do. The

Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didn't sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not sign up for Danger God. You're flatly not safe…

Andreas - K?rm?z? ???kta geçmeye benzemiyor ha Woyzeck.

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.

The higher they fly the harder they fall.

Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.

Voluptatea suprem? o cunosc numai cutez?torii care se cat?r? pe stânci sfidând abisul.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

What is life but a seires of inspired follies The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance it doesn't come every day.

A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt

Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.

You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet.

Give me a spirit that on this life's rough seaLoves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind,Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,And his rapt ship run on her side so lowThat she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

The only failure is not to try

Operating in the black market is like trying to get laid in a city you don't know. In a strange city, if you have enough money, you're bound to find something, but there might be a disease contracted, you might get rolled or arrested, and there's no telling how much it will cost. With you wife, its predictable and in a steady quantity.