Jeremy Hardy Quotes

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

My mother raised me very clearly that if you cross the street, you will die. If you go outside, you will die. If you play sports, you will likely die. That's what I was getting at home.

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.

I'm not a big risk-taker - being bad just wasn't worth my time or the risk of having the consequences for it. So maybe I'm a little bit lame for that.

At the end of the day, there are risks; there's no question - in any sport, any activity.

I'm not a risktaker. I'm the total opposite.

I rarely ever do anything crazy, I really like to be careful to stay in a safe spot, I don't want to do anything, like, insane. I have a lot of people around me to make sure I don't do anything crazy.

I don't want to go out there and jeopardize myself getting hurt in camp.

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.

The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.

Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

You know how I play it, better safe than sorry 'stead of searching for substance at every single party.

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.

I'm a dirty kid, I like to be outside, I like to run about, I like to get messy. So I spent a lot of time outside as a kid, skating and just being a disaster.

What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.

Don't go chasin' waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.