Recklessness Quotes

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

Nemesis follows hubris.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

… you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out..

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

The majority of comic book villains are pure evil, but Curt Connors is an exception. Curt Connors is a good man who initially wants to save the world, but he gets hungry and greedy and reckless, and he pays the price for that.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

No one tests the depth of the river with both feet.

I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.

I've never seen anything that I didn't want to jump off of.

I want the OSS to recruit young men of disciplined daring who are calculatingly reckless.

A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once - not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn't.

Googling yourself is like staring at a flame and then putting your hand in it.

It isn’t easy, but I guess I can understand why the good citizens of the hill country might let themselves be represented in Washington by a man who drinks too much. It isn’t easy, but I guess I can even understand why the good citizens of the hill country might even let themselves be represented by a man in Washington who carouses with city women while his wife and children are back here working the land. But, as God is my witness, I will never understand why the good people of the hill country would let themselves be represented by a man who takes female sheep up into the hills alone at night!

Those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

I fell off a wall in Cockermouth when I was 18. The slate on the top of the wall was loose and I tried to jump up and sit on it. I ended up falling backwards and the tile ended up falling back onto my hand.