Quotes About Risk

you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.

A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.

He was scarcely sixteen years of age when he left his father's home, And through Australia's sunny clime a bushranger did roam. He robbed those wealthy squatters, their stock he did destroy, And a terror to Australia was the wild Colonial boy.

Refusing to be intimidated, after all, didn't mean deliberately asking for trouble.

He risked a glance at the aft-vision display. The other fighter was coming up fast, with no more than a minute or two separating the two ships. Obviously, the pilot had far more experience with the craft than Luke had. That, or else such a fierce determination to recapture Luke that it completely overrode normal commonsense caution. Either way, it meant Mara Jade.

For a change, Lady Luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

But there's a school of thought that says if you're going to go down in flames anyway, you might as well be the one lighting the matches.

But Lando was a gambler. A true gambler never folded when he still had cards left to play.

She walked up on the snake. Did she really expect not to get bitten?

We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to step out into the sky Like that fearless flower --Sosuke Aizen,Flower on the Precipice

I believe that the world is full of danger I want to protect you from it Only because inside me is the same impulse as that danger

The stories you have to write will always make someone hate your guts. If they don't you're just producing words.

His superiors in the Merchant Marine were astonished. Here he was, ready to go back to the security of the Merchant Marine Academy for another eighteen months of accelerated training, and he wanted to quit to join one of the most dangerous outfits in the service. His officer offered him a thirty-day furlough to think it over. Broderick said, "No, my mind's made up.

Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.

If you give people a firm opinion, you run the risk of being wrong. Guess what? People remember when you're wrong a lot more often than when you're right. So the tendency is to include all the possibilities. It's intellectually honest, even.

the motto of the whole intelligence community: 'We bet your life.

One of the compensations for wearing a uniform and earning less money than an equally talented man can make in the real world is the off chance of being killed.

Hitting an airliner was like having a shoot-out in a grammar school, just more crowded.

not a very nice place is it? rosen asked as they came back for the last load. they say there's a hundred different kinds of snake there. ninety-nine are poisonous. and the other one? kelly handed a carton over to the doctor. that one eats your ass whole.

the problem with so secure a place was that it depended absolutely on secrecy which, once blown, became a fatal liability

Armada y sería una maldita tonta si no hubiera pensado que

you can follow along.

How difficult would it be for these men who had risked their lives to adapt to something