Quotes about Risk

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety.

Women play with their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

She came from a land where revolutionary illusion had long since faded but where the thing he admired most in revolution remained: life on a large scale; a life of risk, daring, and the danger of death. Sabina had renewed his faith in the grandeur of human endeavour. Superimposing the painful drama of her country on her person, he found her even more beautiful.

a man has a right to fear dangers that are less than likely to occur.

The best progressive ideas are those that include a strong enough dose of provocation to make its supporters feel proud of being original, but at the same time attract so many adherents that the risk of being an isolated exception is immediately averted by the noisy approval of the triumphant crowd.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.