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Risking Quotes (page 12)

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... Nicholas Sparks
T. H. White quote: "You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being..."
You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted. T. H. White
Adlai E. Stevenson quote: "In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the..."
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take. Adlai E. Stevenson
Albert Camus quote: "There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from..."
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy. Albert Camus
And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode or who she would take down with her when she did. Margaret Atwood
She begins to feel that the reality show is the university she never attended. Vicarious reality. Emotion without a value-added tax. Movement without danger. Alma finds her reality. She no longer has a reason to put herself at risk and go out into the hostile, degrading world. Carlos Fuentes
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence. Frank Herbert
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the... Ursula K. Le Guin
Paulo Coelho quote: "Follow your dreams and take your risks."
Follow your dreams and take your risks. Paulo Coelho
When I read these words I saw at once a connection to my own work. Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk. Michael Chabon
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need? but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need? within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves. Alain de Botton
Seth Godin quote: "This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the..."
This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat. Seth Godin
John Piper quote: "If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will..."
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full. John Piper
Your brain can only process a tiny portion of your environment, It risks being overwhelmed by the volume of information that bombards you every waking moment. Your brain compensates by filtering out the 99.9 percent of your environment that doesn’t matter to you. Scott Adams
The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that. Cheryl Strayed

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