Risk Quotes - Page 29

• We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.

  Paul Farmer

  Team, Fighting, Winning

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• I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Running, Foxes, Cry

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• ...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

  Anita Desai

  Moon, Garden, Pearls

  Anita Desai (1980). “Clear Light of Day”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm just being practial. I knew someday I might have to bare my throat to you. Pete and I discussed that very possibility. As for the danger and risk taking, that's what Pete pays me to do. And you and I both know he inteneds to get his money's worth." Jasmine, I cannot-" Why not!" Because you are not food!" I stared at him for a minute; the I started to grin. I couldn't help it. Vayl"-I tried to keep my face straight- "I'm not asking you to eat me.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Why Not, Asking, Might

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• I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them.

  Caroline Knapp

  Energy, World, Isolation

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• At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love You, Hair, People

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• Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.

  Dick Francis

  Mind, Window, Easy

  Dick Francis (1969). “Three to show: a trilogy”, Harpercollins

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• To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Mean, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.202, Modern Library

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• It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

  T. S. Eliot

  Destiny, Finding Yourself, Cocktail Parties

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• Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

  Victor Hugo

  Running, Cat, Fate

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• That he'll never let you down. That boy's got a heart the size of Kentucky, and he loves you. That's important. Take it from someone who knows. My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him. And I listened to her. Why do you think Henry and I get along so well? I'm not saying that I don't love him, because I do. But if I ever left Henry or something, God forbid, ever happened to me, I don't think he'll be able to go on. And that guy would risk his life for mine in a heartbeat.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mom, Love You, Heart

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• The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.

  Julio Cortazar

  Writing, Loss, Perfection

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• A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

  Jean Cocteau

  Taken, Eye, Angel

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• I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Bullying, Fun, Responsibility

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.

  Erwin McManus

  Jesus, Heart, New Beginnings

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings”, p.77, Thomas Nelson

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• I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.

  Nora Roberts

  Pain, Heart, Feelings

  Nora Roberts (2001). “Heaven and Earth”, p.151, Penguin

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• In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Greatness, Men, Journey

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Running, Would Be, Becoming

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.19, Vintage

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• But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.

  Orson Scott Card

  Winning, Naughty, Important

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.333, Macmillan

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• a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

  Jodi Picoult

  Smart, Different, Might

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.

  Sue Miller

  Distance, Bridges, Needs

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• Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.

  Jodi Picoult

  Different, Looks, Beaten

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

  Anne Lamott

  Secret, Wish, Way

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• You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love You, Live By, Saved

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

  Abraham Maslow

  Safety, Choices, Growth

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