Quotes About Risk

Going outside was like walking straight into the mouth of a yawning dog.

This was the beginning of something that might lead to everything or nothing at all.

No heroism in forever following the calculations of one's cunning mind. A man ought to attempt the illogical, if there's fire in his heart.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

In every stock jobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety. Apres moi le déluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation. Hence capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society.

You can get 5 million million atoms on the head of a pin", it said. Atoms are dangerous enough – they are what makes the atomic bomb so powerful. So why store them on top of a dangerous sharp object like a pin? They're asking for trouble.

I must be so lucky, as I'd been using the boiler without the plastic ring for ages and me and Suzanne are still alive (I wish there was a sarcasm font).

So what building are we breaking into? Give me all the information you've got and I'll hunt down the rest. By the way, when are we doing this? I glanced up. Tonight. Tonight? Oh, boy... Miracles 'R' Us. I assume that we're not going to go and ask permission for this.

The only time you were safe was when you were dead.

Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs.

Marlee was fourteen. A dangerous age, although, let's face it, Jackson thought, every age was a dangerous age for a woman.

She could have started up a branch library (or a spectacular house fire)

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

Think of the man who first tried German sausage.

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.

I'm not a betting man.