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Quotes About Peril

This high-yield market resembles a nap on a railway track.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the more lethal the risks, the less visible they will be, since the severely victimized are likely to be eliminated from the evidence. The
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The turkey problem can be generalized to any situation where the same hand that feeds you can be the one that wrings your neck.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
in real life, every single bit of risk you take adds up to reduce your life expectancy.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Risk and ruin are different tings.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Não ser um peru" começa quando descobrimos a diferença entre estabilidade verdadeira e fabricada. O leitor pode facilmente imaginar o que acontece quando sistemas, sufocados pela volatilidade, explodem. Temos um bom exemplo: a remoção do Partido Baath em 2003, com a abrupta derrubada de Saddam Hussein e seu regime por obra dos Estados Unidos. Mais de 100 mil pessoas morreram e, dez anos mais tarde, o lugar ainda é um caos.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Miles said softly, "Ma. We'll get you out right away." "Sure, Ma," said Jesse. "Don't worry about me none," said Mae in the same exhausted voice. "I'll make out." "Make out?" exclaimed the constable. "You people beat all. If this feller dies, you'll get the gallows, that's what you'll get, if that's what you mean by make out.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Drink then, he replied, still with the same cold composure. Does thou know mw so little Hester Pyrnne? Are my purposes wont to be so shallow? Even if I imagine a scheme of vengeance, what could i do better for my object than to let thee live-than to give the medicines against all harm and peril of life-so that this burning shame may still blaze upon thy bosom?
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The road grew wilder and drearier and more faintly traced, and vanished at length, leaving him in the heart of the dark wilderness, still rushing onward with the instinct that guides mortal man to evil.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader's step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Why do I get the feeling, interjected Cheops, that shit and fan are moving into conjunction, and that we might be in the way?
~ Neal Asher
Beautiful is dangerous.
~ Neal Shusterman
Sorry, Your Honor; I was just thinking. Too much of that can be dangerous.
~ Neal Shusterman
Lief shook his head. "No grown-ups here. Only kids. Kids and monsters." "Monsters!" said Nick. "That's great. That's wonderful. I'm so glad I asked.
~ Neal Shusterman
We have just entered the worst of all possible worlds.
~ Neal Shusterman
And intoxicated by madness I screamed furiously: "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!" Though such capricious endeavors are not without peril, and one must often pay dearly for them, what does an eternity of damnation compare with an infinity of pleasure in a single second?
~ Charles Baudelaire
escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.
~ Charles Bukowski
The ocean, I said, look at it out there, battering, crawling up and down. And underneath all that, the fish, the poor fish fighting each other, eating each other. We're like those fish, only we're up here. One bad move and you're finished. It's nice to be a champion. It's nice to know your moves.
~ Charles Bukowski
And underneath all that, the fish, the poor fish fighting each other, eating each other. We're like those fish, only we're up here. One bad move and you're finished.
~ Charles Bukowski
loose lips don't merely sink ships, they summon krakens with too many tentacles.
~ Charles Stross
Rita stopped, suddenly acutely aware that while curiosity was her job, too much curiosity was reputedly felicidal:
~ Charles Stross
the frisson of fear that comes from knowing that you're safe even while the tigers noisily devour your neighbor.
~ Charles Todd
A stupid man is a very dangerous man, she thought.
~ Charlotte Armstrong
The word "future" and females is a dangerous combination.
~ Chetan Bhagat