Quotes about Risk

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.

If you never try, you'll never know. You are what you manifest.

To love means to open ourselves to suffering. Shall we shut our doors to love, then and 'be safe'?" That's the only alternative, really. But locking ourselves up and never facing another person won't fix what's really going on in our souls.

Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

There is no gambling like politics.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.

The price of love is the risk of losing it." I frowned. "Is it worth the risk?" "I've thought a lot about that. I still think the greatest hurt isn't to lose love, it's the regret of never having it. To have never felt love, that would be true tragedy.

To avoid love because of the possibility of losing it is like poisoning ourselves to avoid being murdered. Tabula