Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.

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.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.

Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

I'm not bound to be in aviation at all. I'm here only because I love the sky and flying more than anything else on earth. Of course there's danger; but a certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life. I don't believe in taking foolish chances' but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Never tempt fate. It plays for keeps.

I really believe things happen as they're supposed to and in the time that they're supposed to.

Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

I've had to make really big decisions, knowing the results were not always in my control. Through these moments, I've learned to be daring and take risks but understand that everything always happens for a reason.

Danger is very real but fear is a choice.

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.