Quotes About Risk

Did you really save the world ?... - Mostly I was saving my own ass. Just happend that the world was in the same spot.

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

Tavi grinned. Are you with me? The plan is insane, Ehren said. YOU are insane. He looked around the inside of the tent. I'll need some pants.

Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.

I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly. ~Harry Dresden

Unicorns, I said. Very dangerous. You go first.

If I stay, they'll kill me... If I go, at least everything that wants me dead won't be taking it personally.

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. And I, Harry Dresden, am that man, I stated.

It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

And you've got that look on your face again. I can't help it, Ehren said. You're about to walk to breakfast, arn't you, regardless of who is in the way? Yes, Tavi said. Ehren sighed. Let's hear it. Tavi told him the plan. That's insane, Ehren said. It could work. You arn't going to have anyone come along to bail you out this time, Ehren pointed out. Tavi grinned. Are you with me? The plan is insane, Ehren said. You are insane. He looked around inside the tent. I'll need some pants.

Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

Better safe than exsanguinated.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

I had to maintain a fine balance between going in ready for trouble and going in asking for trouble.

Life is not notable for its overabundance of certainty.

This is scary. And we're doing it anyway, I said. That makes us brave, right? If we get away with it, I said. If we don't, it just makes us stupid.

You will probably find, in life, that successes and victories tend to overshadow the risks you took, while failure will amplify how idiotic they were.

if you go exploring, you might find something that could hurt you. If one doesn't , one is not truly exploring

I leaned into Karrin a little and said, next to her ear, You ready for this? Only a lunatic is ready for this, she said. I could hear her smile as she spoke. Then she turned her head and, before I could react, planted a kiss right on my mouth. I almost fell off the Harley. She drew her head back, flashed me a wicked little smile, and said, For luck. Star Wars -style. You are so hot right now, I told her.

There are many things you have never done," Rowl responded. "To be frightened of them is of no use to you.

You know, it wouldn't kill you to be a little more polite." "Why take chances," I muttered

I turned to Grey again. "The point is, killing someone is almost never the smart move, long term. Sometimes it's got to be done if you want to survive—but the more you do it, the more you risk creating more enemies and buying yourself even more trouble." Grey seemed to consider that for a moment, and then shrugged. "The argument is not entirely without merit. Tell me, wizard, does it give you some sort of satisfaction to protect this man?