Quotes: Risk

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

To save all we must risk all.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

I’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it’s not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.