Pietro Metastasio Quotes

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.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.

But I've been traveling on a boat and a plane, in a car on a bike with a bus and a train. Traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear. But oh Lord we pay the price, with the spin of the wheel with the roll of the dice. Ah yeah you pay your fare. And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.

Life is the risk we cannot refuse.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

Film line is all about chance. I don't think much, I just like to take chances.

After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life.

Life has to be dangerous.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

In life you need to take a risk.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.