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Risk It Quotes

There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune."
"You'll have to risk it...and so will I," Frank said. "By the way, we're related."
Percy almost stumbled off the roof. "What?
- Rick Riordan

That was kind of scary. You got the sense as a little kid that you might be at risk now, and then you're like, 'Why are we at risk? It's because my grandfather is in charge of all of this.' You can't really realize the magnitude of a job like that when you are eight.
- Lauren Bush

Circle me and the needle moves gracefully
Back and forth, if my heart was a compass you'd be North
Risk it all cause I'll catch you if you fall
Wherever you go, if my heart was a house you'd be home.
- Owl City

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
- Stephen Covey

The one girl I thought I'd risk it for." He stuck one finger into the air to drive home his point. "The one girl and you stole her right out from under me! Literally!
- Shelly Crane

Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow, do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?
- Bob Dylan

All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?
- Bob Dylan

Now I understand all those chick flicks I made fun of. 'Cause now I'm the sappy dork willing to risk it all for the girl. Estoy enamorado...I'm in love.
- Simone Elkeles

It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.
- Harlan Ellison

What happens with this being will mean the end of my life, this much is clear, so why does excitement bubble my blood and make my heart roll over in my chest. Life? For him, I will risk it all if he takes me. What is my alternative? To sit and wait for a fairytale Prince charming who will never come?
- Penelope Fletcher

Miss Hepplewhite looked pained.
"Miss Peck," she said at last, "a young lady should never, ever, under any circumstances whatsoever, run. Should you find yourself in a situation where you are at risk, it is always preferable to faint.
- Jennifer L Holm

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
- Jean Paul Sartre

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.
- Daniel Inouye

Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, 'Don't risk it.' Because it's only when your heart has been ripped open that you get a chance to find the one person capable of making it whole.
- Sabrina Jeffries

Life should be a risk. It's more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what's around the bend sometimes until you get there. That scares a lot of people. But that's the beauty of it.
- Katie Kacvinsky

What a tricky balance of safety and risk it is that brings out the best in us?
- Kaya Mclaren

Drake. He liked dangerous pies."
"Why did he join you?"
"Who would eat pie that could take over your life? Why risk it?"
"Focus. Why did he join you?"
"Say no to death pies. Another good motto. I'm getting a headache." p. 432
- Brandon Mull

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin

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

Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.
- Mary Quant

It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get.
- Brande Roderick

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.
- Jeanette Winterson

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
- Jeanette Winterson

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.
- John Sununu

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