Risk Quotes
I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall.
Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.
We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something
So he'll keep dragging himself up this bridge between possible worlds, this rickety ruin of light, trying to imagine it might matter if he makes it to the other side.
The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he'll ever get where he's going, and behind him, where he's come from might as well not be there.
We have to choose life. Choose risk. Choose love. The only safe place for our hearts is to dive deeply into the magnificent, eternal, ridiculous, overwhelming love that God has for us.
The long term health effects from utility company smart meters present a far greater risk to the general population than terrorism in the USA.
Charlie tried to focus on what she was saying, but his head felt packed with gauze. Like no one could reach him in here, where it hurt.
Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.
That it may be the only thing the darkness makes clearer: who really matters is whoever you're most desperate to see.
She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven.
Responsibility for the consequences of actions is not the price of freedom, but one of its rewards.
If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.
Risk should be taken for a cause not pleasure, life is not worth to ruin but to live with pride.
When he went to go get groceries, though, he asked Mercer to come. 'There's no one I'd rather get stuck in a snowdrift and freeze to death with, ' William said.
And so she remained, like everything that mattered to me then, secret—to be pursued in the woods by moonlight, when I was supposed to be studying.
You don't have to believe in coincidences because they happen every day. The trick is to be able to discern when something is more than coincidence.
J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.
I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.
If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.
If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.
Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.
The game isn't big enough unless it scares you a little. Cmdr. William Riker
Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with extensive borrowing – when and where matters of life and death are at stake.
I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.
The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337
Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.
I tell you not to be timid. I tell you to make the choices, make the mistakes, big, terrible, reckless mistakes, really screw it all up. I tell you it is the only way.
We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.
What I do know is that there are two kinds of pain in this life: risk and regret. I'd rather live with the first than the second.
No matter how big the risk will be, you're willing to do anything, to get what you want or save yourself.
We stand the risk of stagnation, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren’t willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will.
Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two.
It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.
Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own bodies.
Many have said, “Follow my steps” I say to you, create your own paths, and follow no one, live, risk it all, die and be free.
There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered.
Be strong and courageous to take risks.Without trying and taking risks, you will miss great opportunities in life.