Baltasar Gracian Quotes

People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.

I'm dangerous because I have nothing to lose.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

Danger is cool.

For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.

I like the edge of danger.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

Treat all skirmishes like wars.

Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.

Nations like individuals, when driven to choose between desperate courses, might at times be compelled to take the chance of destruction, often destroying themselves or suffering irreparable harm.

That damn fool will get himself killed by some other damn fool.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

This is the most horrible idea I have heard of, and anyone who shall venture, dare, hazard, make bold and have the audacity to propose it will not be safe from my dagger.

Generals make plans. Plans go wrong. And soldiers die.

The unknown is the governing condition of war.

I’ll whip his ass!