Quotes About Risk

An old Ukrainian proverb warns, "A tale that begins with a beet will end with the devil." That is a risk we have to take.

Real courage is risking one's clichés.

Remember: no hand is a winning hand 'til you dare to lay it down. - Wild Card

They say a story that begins with a beet will end with the devil; that is a risk we will have to take.

I recommend that you make all of your major moves on the first of April. Just in case.)

The fetus bailed out without a parachute.

Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home.

a novel that does its own stunts

Poor project management is the leading cause of failure in technical projects

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."19

Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.

Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.

Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they brok its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.

In your rainbow journey toward the realization of personal goals, don't make choices based only on your security and your safety. Nothing is safe. That is not to say that anything ever was, or that anything worth achieving ever should be. Things of value seldom are. It is not safe to have a child. It is not safe to challenge the status quo. It is not safe to choose work that has not been done before. Or to do old work in a new way. There will always be someone there to stop you.

At least she's willing to figure it out, do something, risk something and take its measure. I risk nothing. I sit on a throne and identify signs of imperfection in others.

Well, if a man don't HAVE a chance, then he has to TAKE a chance!

Did you do it yet? He was like a teen-age girl wondering about the virginity of her friend, the friend who has a look, a manner newly minted––different, separate, focused somehow. Did you do it yet? Do you know something both exotic and ordinary that I have not felt? Do you now know what it's like to risk your one and only self? How did it feel? Were you afraid? Did it change you? And if I do it, will it change me too?

What excited and challenged her shipmates horrified the churched women and each set believed the other deeply, dangerously flawed. Although they had nothing in common with the views of each other, they had everything in common with one thing: the promise and threat of men. Here, they agreed, was where security and risk lay. And both had come to terms.

Narrative fiction provides a controlled wilderness, an opportunity to be and to become the Other. The stranger. With sympathy, clarity, and the risk of self-examination.

Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous.

Jumping from the roof of Mercy was the most interesting thing he had done.

We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life.

We have entered an age of insecurity—economic insecurity, physical insecurity, political insecurity.

Insecurity breeds fear. And fear—fear of change, fear of