Randolph Bourne Quotes

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

I think that's what happens when you get scared, and you're rushing, and you don't have time. Rather than cut things out and take a chance, and build things up you think are working, you cut everything down a little bit, and everything sort of suffers.

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

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

Have I gone too far?

Fear is the foundation of safety.

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Caution. Caution is nothing but cowardice!

I hope, George, that you know what you're doing.

There is an innate fear that runs within Israeli society of all that we see and hear around us, and you know what? It's a natural reaction of human beings.

Fear, to me, is a guiding thing more than anything.

When I moved to New York to start my acting career, I was always very, very careful to walk way around ladders, and black cats could ruin my day. There were many silly things that brought fear into my life.

Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right: you can never have too much.

When things go well I'm always looking for the next hiccup.

That's always been my problem - the lack of fear in some situations.