Quotes about Risk

The line between courageous faith and foolish idealism is, almost by definition, one angstrom wide.

Describing Bonhoeffer's demeanor on returning to danger in Germany rather than safety in America, with "with a strong and joyful firmness such as only arises out of realized freedom.

440,000 lethal, preventable events each year from care in hospitals, or "roughly one-sixth of all deaths that occur in the United States each year.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Relatively few people should start companies.

It's different in the NFL because you're getting paid to get hit. In college, you're taking hits for someone else to make money.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

So whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

I was afraid of burglars and Indian thugs and snakes and fires and Jack the Ripper, when I should have been afraid of thirty years in a bank and a take-over bid and a premature retirement and the Deuil du Roy Albert.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. (The Power and the Glory)

Whims so often end in bankruptcy.