Thornton Wilder Quotes

As soon as there is life there is danger.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Life is dangerous. There are no guarantees.

He that's secure is not safe.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

Truth is often attended with danger

Risk is part of our jobs.

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Power is precarious.

By definition, risk exposes businesses to danger.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.

What a seaOf melting ice I walk on!

Just remember...you are the one with everything to lose.

Nothing is really 'safe'.

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth.