Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

All of life is the exercise of risk.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.

...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.

'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Stupid people are dangerous.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

Security will produce danger.

Everything worth doing involves risk.

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!” She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN. “Open it!” Leo yelled again.

When the deeds that you do don't add up to zero.

If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.

You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

A good messenger expects to get shot.

Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.

Hesitation will get you killed.