Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

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

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

A good motto to live by: "Always try not to get killed.

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

I've never let my guard down by saying, 'I don't need to be hedged.'

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.

Only the paranoid survive.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Only the paranoid survive.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.

Don’t taunt the alligator until after you have crossed the creek.

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

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.

I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake.

Be safe and be realistic. They're both equally important.

I'm not really much of a risk taker.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.