Quotes About Risk

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation. That has always been part of its charm, Laroche loved orchids, but I came to believe he loved the difficulty and fatality of getting them almost as much as the flowers themselves.

Being an orchid hunter has always meant pursuing beautiful things in terrible places.

I hate hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

This is the smartest thing I've ever done, and also the scariest.

The whole world is full of danger. But also it is full of beauty and courage and many wonders.

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

At this stage of life, he'd better just lean into love, because if he fell, he feared he might break a hip.

And who would be willing to travel through hundreds of miles of wilderness, risking capture, carrying a letter telling the French to retreat? A young Virginian volunteered. George Washington, only twenty-one years old... found a wilderness guide and a translator to accompany him and set off...

Never ask, never get," the dog replied. "Never try, never taste. Never taste, never enjoy.

Fear isn't a bad travel companion. Sometimes, it saves your life.

As always, I was pulled in by the small gesture. It was all that I knew about him, and it was perilous to me.

I have not flirted with him. And besides, even if I had, which I hadn't, flirting is not risky. It only raises the possibility of risk.

Men are often like that. They grow bored with simple goodness and want a woman who is dangerous, a challenge.

What's so wonderful about experiments is that often they don't work. They do blow up in the oven; the Bride of Frankenstein does crawl out and strangle you with a black leotard while you shout your last prayers. It's only once you've tasted your own shocking failures, harebrained ideas, and sudden departures that you will realize something quite wonderful.

Feel the fear and do it anyway. Fear is just part of the process of doing something new. We need to feel it, drop stories attached to it, and step through it.

When/ the piano falls, not /if/. Oh, Alyssa. What a way to live. With potential pain and heartbreak lurking around every corner. And the only way to effectively counter it was to prepare for the worst to happen. Or maybe even to run away from the good things -- like love. If you didn't let yourself love someone, you couldn't lose them. No wonder Alyssa had fought so hard for so long to keep Sam out of her life.

You know, it's not about not being afraid—it's about taking action despite the fear," he pointed out. "That's called courage.

He pushed her down onto the floor, thrusting himself in front of her as he drew his gun from the back waistband of his jeans. Four to one, no six —shit, there were six gunmen! He might've been able to take four if he used up his life's allotment of miracles all at once, but six ! He'd have to fire first and keep firing even after he was hit.

The average life expectancy for a black man in an American city is something like twenty-three very short years. The reality of that had never fully kicked in before, but it did that night. And I thought, hell, I'm at risk just walking around.

She'd read in the paper about a woman who was so cautious, she refused to leave her house. And an airplane crashed into it.

Max was shaking his head. "Careers are going to be made, based on what happens over the next few days," he pointed out. Jules just looked at him for several long seconds. "That might be truly the most offensive thing you've ever said to me.

There are much worse games to play.

We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.

I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?" "Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?" "Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it.