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• I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.

  Dennis Cooper

  Lonely, Thinking, People

  Dennis Cooper (2007). “Guide”, p.91, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin

  Break Through, Risk, Bud

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• No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone will. And let those who go down the sunset way do so with open eyes, for it is a sacrifice which daunts even the gods. Yet every descent is followed by an ascent.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Sunset, Eye

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• Valkyrie walked to the back door, which hadn't been closed properly, shut it and locked it. There was now a baby in the house, after all. She couldn't take the chance that a wild animal might wander in and make off with Alice, like those dingoes in Australia. She was probably being unfair to both dingoes and Australia, but she couldn't risk it. Locked doors kept the dingoes out, and that's all there was to it, even if she didn't know what a dingo actually was. She took out her phone, searched the Internet, found a picture of a baby dingo and now she really wanted a baby dingo for a pet.

  Derek Landy

  Baby, Animal, Australia

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• 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

  Life Changing, Ideas, Decision

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• 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

  Writing, Mean, Discovery

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• Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Men, Cities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.70, Penguin

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• The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

  Al Pacino

  Risk, Acting, Who Cares

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• Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beautiful, Strong, Powerful

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• Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.

  Erwin McManus

  Jesus, Heart, New Beginnings

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings”, p.77, Thomas Nelson

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• [What if my advisor talks only about returns, not risk?] ... It's his job to take risk into account by telling you the range of possible outcomes you face. If he won't, go get a new planner, someone who will get real.

  William Forsyth Sharpe

  Jobs, Real, Risk

  "The man who explained it all". Interview with Jason Zweig, money.cnn.com. July 6, 2007.

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• I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Nice, Challenges, Risk

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• Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

  Edna Buchanan

  Love Is, People, Brave

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• You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

  Mel Brooks

  Brave, Risk, Feels

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• To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is not the art of eluding responsibility; it means acting in compliance with orders received, and therefore finding in one's own mind, by effort and reflection, the possibility to carry out such orders. It also means finding in one's own will the energy to face the risks involved in execution.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Art, Mean, Responsibility

  "Precepts and Judgments". Book by Ferdinand Foch, 1919.

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• Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Power, Risk

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.21

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• A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Thinking, Rose

  David Gemmell (2011). “Quest For Lost Heroes”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.

  Michael Connelly

  Sex, Real, Vegas

  Michael Connelly (2011). “Michael Connelly - The Harry Bosch Collection (ebook)”, p.922, Hachette UK

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• When I look in the mirror, I see a God-fearing man who would risk it all for family and his beliefs.

  Cory Hardrict

  Men, Risk, Belief

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• To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Mean, Reality

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.16, Criss Jami

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• 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

  Gay, Thinking, Sight

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• You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Children, Parent, Risk

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• There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Art, Sex, Children

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• I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long. I dropped out of Yale after two years to pursue one of the most uncertain careers - modeling. That seemed like a crazy decision, especially coming from where I came from and given what Yale is. Most people I knew told me so. But I was following what my heart was telling me I needed to do. I took the risk. It could easily have not worked out, but it did. Phew!

  Joy Bryant

  Crazy, Heart, Two

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• That's exactly what I'm driving at. 'Basterds' was interesting because it was, in a way, unfamiliar. I thought well, OK. Let's leave the comfort zone and just risk it. Why not? Because, exactly as you said, in a way, by taking that risk, I make up a little bit for my ignorance in the subject, or rather, the genre.

  Christoph Waltz

  Ignorance, Interesting, Risk

  Source: collider.com

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