We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.
We can never protect 100% of the population against 100% of the vicissitudes of life.
This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.
Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.
To live greatly, you have to risk greatly.
With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.
I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.
You can be careful as far as you can, but you never know when you're going to fall over and break your ankle. It's like when you drive a car, you don't think about crashing, do you?
SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.
It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.
If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.
Whatever you love most, you fear you might lose, you know it can change. Why do you look from left to right when you cross the street? Because you don’t want to get run over. But, you still cross the street.
I want a one hundred percent guarantee that they’ll all be fine.” I tell Mrs. Garcia. She pats my knee. “Unfortunately, there are no guarantees in life.
If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.
I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.
Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!
Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.
The present gives you the opportunity to dive deep into the water of life, or to fly high into the sky of life. But on both the sides there are dangers - 'past' and ´future´ are the most dangerous words in human language.
I don't want to live life too cautiously. I mean, you can step off a curb and twist your ankle.
One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
