Top 56 Quotes About Risking Life
#1. It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; ... the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#2. Cosimo did not yet know love, and what is any experience without that? What point is there in risking life, when the real flavor of life is as yet unknown?
Italo Calvino
#3. It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone De Beauvoir
#4. What would you do in life if you knew you could not fail? What would you deeply regret never risking?
Mike Rabe
#5. But basically courage is risking the known for the unknown, the familiar for the unfamiliar, the comfortable for the uncomfortable, arduous pilgrimage to some unknown destination. One never knows whether one will be able to make it or not. It is gambling, but only the gamblers know what life is. THE
Osho
#6. I can live with my husband risking his life because that's who he is and I wouldn't change him.
Maya Banks
#7. I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#8. It made her want to stand up next to him and fight. Fight to stay alive long enough to live out her life next to him. Fight for the only thing she knew that was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be, worth risking everything.
Love.
Lauren Kate
#9. No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
Eudora Welty
#10. It just doesn't seem right to spend your entire life drinking, when you could be exploring the world."
"Or," Zhy said as he hefted a mug to his lips, "it doesn't seem right to be risking your life running down warlocks when you could be sitting on a nice, warm bar stool.
Martin D. Gibbs
#11. I laughed under my breath, and it sounded bitter. "Listen to me. What am I talking about, worth it? Is any experience or bit of beauty worth the cost of my life? I know nothing but safety and self-preservation at all costs."
"And yet," he said softly, "you're risking everything to help me.
Kate Avery Ellison
#12. I was risking the chance at a new life on uncertainty, and the only thing that was certain was that if I ever returned, I'd come back to no life at all. I collapsed to the floor. I had made my choice.
Karina Halle
#13. Do you respect someone's right to challenge and discover their true potential?How is a gang-bang any different than risking your life to climb mount Everest?
Chuck Palahniuk
#14. Human beings have freedom toward death and the right to death, in the sense of sacrifice, but only when the good sought through sacrifice, and not the destruction of one's own life, is the reason for risking one's life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#15. Hey, you feel like driving today?" he asks. "I don't want to walk to the bus stop. It's too cold."
"You feel like dying today?"
"Sure. I like risking my life. Keeps things in perspective.
Cynthia Hand
#16. Even with tear gas, tommy guns and a police cordon, there is no way to take a desperate man without risking your life.
Ross Macdonald
#17. It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.
Oprah Winfrey
#18. The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.
Walter Dean Myers
#19. If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life
Richelle Mead
#20. Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.
Leslie Cockburn
#21. By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.
Charles L. Whitfield
#22. So, basically, I'm risking my life because you pansies don't want to pick up tampons.
Rhiannon Frater
#23. It's not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it's about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#24. A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party ... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.
Dan Jenkins
#25. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.
Christopher Hitchens
#26. Not learning by doing,
but learning by risking.
Toba Beta
#27. She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need.
Kristin Hannah
#28. Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.
Lynsey Addario
#29. In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity
Keith Ferrazzi
#30. The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."
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Veronica Roth
#31. You and I? It may end badly. I may get hurt. But guess what? I don't care! I've never had my heart broken. Maybe I'm fine with risking it, because it's better than being afraid and going through life bored.
Jasinda Wilder
#32. She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven.
Nicholas Sparks
#33. For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'
Steven Seagal
#34. If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.
Nikki Giovanni
#35. I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
Vincent Van Gogh
#36. Cigarettes are called coffin nails for a reason, Billy Boy," I remembered telling him. "Be careful with those things. You're risking your life.
Cat Winters
#37. There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
Nick Lampson
#38. Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.
Gene Robinson
#39. Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.
F.X. Toole
#40. If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. But you can't find love if you're not willing to lose it. You can't find happiness if you're not willing to risk being sad. And you can't find the love of your life without risking breaking your heart.
Kunal Nayyar
#42. Risking one's life can be strangely liberating. That's what the sea counsels me.
Diane Wilson
#44. For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country.
Spencer Bachus
#45. Chris (Anderson) is risking his life with every chord, that's how much it means to him. He has such a reverence for beauty, he plays like an angel.
Charlie Haden
#46. Risking our hearts is why we're alive. The last thing you want is to look back on your life and wonder if only.
Margaret Watson
#47. I've been thanking God for you being there. For you risking your life for Dove. I'll never forget it, Tyler. I'll never forget you...."
"Truth is, Lily, I'll never forget you either.
Debra Holland
#48. To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.
Edward Zwick
#49. Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.
Lev Grossman
#50. The only person worth risking everything for is the one person that would never let you risk everything for.
Shannon L. Alder
#51. On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.
Emile Hirsch
#52. You really believe that? He took a step toward her.' I'm risking Sin's life by putting off what I have to do to Kynan. I'm doing that for you. Not for Kynan or my brothers. I took a knife for you. I've kissed you over and over when I never kiss anyone. So why the hell would I want to see you suffer?
Larissa Ione
#53. The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.
Niall Ferguson
#54. Didier. Anyway, there is a man, a printer, risking his life to make tracts that we can distribute. Maybe if we can get the French to
Kristin Hannah
#55. A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.
Mo Yan
#56. Damn her he said to himself. What good does it do my risking my life? She doesn't care whether we own an ostrich or not. Nothing penetrates.
Philip K. Dick
