“ Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. “It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying. Susan Oakey-Baker
“ Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent. Susan Oakey-Baker
“ Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system close to collapse in 2008. Said Elias Dawlabani
“ For God's sake, Gwen," he said gently. "What matter that I love you. That's not the bit that's always been missing."Her lips parted. They wished to ask a question she could not bear to bring herself t… Meredith Duran
“ I'm giving you what I can give you, and I'm telling you in advance that you might get hurt. But it's worth it to take the risk. I can damn well promise you that it's worth it. K.A. Linde
“ As de Saussure said, risk-taking brings with it its own reward: it keeps a "continual agitation alive" in the heart. Hope, fear. Hope, fear - this is the fundamental rhythm of mountaineering. Life, it… Robert Macfarlane
“ We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world. Paul Gibbons
“ Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk. Conn Iggulden
“ [But] you can't find love if you're not willing to lose it. You can't find happiness if you're not willing to risk being sad. And you can't find the love of your life without risking breaking your hea… Kunal Nayyar
“ You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away," he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer. Martina Boone
“ I had the vertiginous feeling one gets standing at the precipice of an unresolved plan, for I had brought Bon and myself to the brink of disaster without knowing how to save us. But was not this how a… Viet Thanh Nguyen
“ No risk is more terrifying than that taken by the first root. A lucky root will eventually find water, but its first job is to anchor -- to anchor an embryo and forever end its mobile phase, however p… Hope Jahren
“ If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn. Craig Groeschel
“ There are two types of risk in life: the danger of trying and the danger of not trying. Nick Vujicic
