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Quotes About Risk

Let's play it safe. I'm not in the mood to run right now and I know fighting is suicide. Last thing I want to do is make my enemies happy by dying. (Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yeah, well, it's what happens when we spoil the things we love. They don't always understand the boundaries and their ridiculous wants can get us killed if we're not careful. (Jaden)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
All right, two dozen house specials. Any chance one of you might want to live dangerously and try a vegetable? (Aimee) Do we look like rabbits to you? (Fury)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Looks like the safest spot here for a human who doesn't want to get eaten. (Kish)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you feel safe then you can go wherever you want to go as an actor.
~ Stanley Tucci
People keep asking me if I'll marry again. It's as if after you've had one car crash you want another.
~ Stephanie Beacham
No one has any idea what's going to happen. Not even Elon Musk. That's why he's building those rockets. He wants a 'Plan B' on another world.
~ Stephen Colbert
I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.
~ Stephen King
I've done about every kind of fishing you can imagine, but I've never noodled. And the reason I've never noodled is because I don't want to get bit by a water moccasin. I'm just too afraid of snakes.
~ Tim Blake Nelson
In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.
~ Tim Cook
I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.
~ Tom Clancy
The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide to find a new career. But you do feel like you want to match and develop things.
~ Tom Hollander
There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!"
~ Travis Morrison
There's nothing harder than making a mellow, clean record. It's really scary. I can see why people would never want to do it.
~ Ty Segall
I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.
~ Vince Flynn
I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.
~ Wes Craven
I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly "Scrubs" guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
~ Zach Braff
Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.
~ Henry Rollins
Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready, our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.
~ Hortense Odlum
I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.
~ J. K. Rowling
Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.
~ James Altucher
Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
~ James Dyson
People want somebody to be a daredevil, even if they're not going to be a daredevil themselves.
~ James Wolcott