Quotes About Risk

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.

By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?

In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded and crashed down to Earth less than two minutes after takeoff. The cause of that crash, it turned out, was an inexpensive rubber O-ring in the booster rocket that had frozen on the launchpad the night before and failed catastrophically moments after takeoff.

Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.

Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.

If somebody had told me when I was in graduate school, 'Brian, in 35 years you'll get a chance to fly the first commercial spacecraft with no computers,' I'd have said, 'I don't think so. People are not going to be that stupid.'

The reason that we don't have happy hours up here is because you never know when something might actually go sideways, and so we always have to be prepared in a worst, worst case scenario to jump on our spacecraft and go home. So, we have to keep it pretty straight and narrow while we're up here.

There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.

I think that people live in safe spaces these days; they don't want to deal with the controversy and the drama.

I am not going to pretend that flying a spaceship will be as safe as getting in a 747 with four engines for a flight across the Atlantic.

You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.

When I went to Spain, it was a risk because I was really young. But I quickly learned the game, and I grew as a result.

It's alright to die cause death is the only thing you haven't tried

It's a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife at your friend's head and walk away.

Don't risk your life for those that doesn't love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death.

Ryder Delaney was the one imperfection in my life.He was the bad boy, black sheep, the one your mother always warned you about.He had only one hard-and-fast rule-Don't Fall In Love

Life is full of chances, and today I hope you take each and every one of them.

You just gotta love someone with full force, even if it hurts you. Even if you end up regretting it, at least you gave it your all.

Bravery wasn't in protecting myself from everything, it was in daring to trust, daring to love, daring to be me. Sometimes being brave meant letting go.

Taking risks is part of life, but to take risks invites the possibilty of failure and rejection, but also the possibility of true happines.