Quotes About Risk

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

The snail may leave a trail of slime behind him, but a little slime will do a man no harm, while if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

Our maester chuckled at me and told us that Prince Rhaegar was certain to defeat this rebel. That was when Stark said, 'In this world only winter is certain. We may lose our heads, it's true . . . but what if we should prevail?' My father sent him on his way with his head still on his shoulders. 'If you lose,' he told Lord Eddard, 'you were never here.'" "No more than I was," said Davos Seaworth.

When I was a boy, I dreamt that I could fly, he announces. When I woke, I couldn't... or so the maester said. But what if he lied? What do you mean? Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap. There is the window. Leap. What do you want? The world.

En malas manos, una moneda es tan peligrosa como una espada.

Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.

Every battle is a gamble, Snow. The man who does nothing also takes a risk.

Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

The man who does nothing also takes a risk.

Your boat's not like to sink, I don't think. Boats only sink when I'm aboard.

A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.

Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.

Can a man be brave when he is afraid?- Bran asked after a moment's thought. -"It's the only time he can be brave,"- his father said.

Too many dragons are as dangerous as too few.

No estoy volando, estoy cayendo! -Todo vuelo comienza con una caída.

If you step in a nest of snakes, does it matter which one bites you first?

Yet the higher a man climbs the further he has to fall.

Even the bravest men fear death and maiming

If you keep all your treasures in one purse, you only make it easier for those who would rob you.

Dorne has danced with dragons before," he said. "I would sooner sleep with scorpions.

The trap had teeth.

It's dangerous being free, but most come to like the taste o' it,

The gardener digs a hole in the ground and throws in a seed and waters it and he hopes something comes up. Now, he knows generally what's going to come up. He knows whether he planted an acorn for an oak tree or a tomato plant to get some tomatoes for the summer. But there's a lot of details he doesn't know. It may not grow at all. It may grow a little and then die. It may go wild. A chipmunk may eat it during the night. You don't know.