Probabilistic Risk Quotes & Sayings

The more you know, the less you will fear. — Peyton Rose

Blackberry Smoke is my favorite band! — Jamey Johnson

Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain? — William James

Not everything about where you're headed ... has to be about where you've been. — Kimberly McCreight

Our marriage, like many others, has had its ups and its downs. It took a lot of work and a whole lot of therapy to get to a place where I could forgive Anthony. It was not an easy choice in any way. But I made the decision that it was worth staying in this marriage. That was a decision I made for me, for our son and for our family. — Huma Abedin

We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world. — Paul Gibbons

I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in. — Strom Thurmond

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse. — Groucho Marx

When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear. — Abby Sunderland

If I hope in anything or anyone less than One who has power over suffering and, ultimately, death, I am doomed to final disappointment. Suffering will drive me to hopelessness. What character I have will disintegrate.
It is the hope of Christ that makes it possible for us to persevere in times of tribulation and distress. We have an anchor for our souls that rests in the One who has gone before us and conquered. — R.C. Sproul

Do you have nicknames for any of your other brothers?"
The youngster squinted his dark gray eyes in concentration. "Well, Tristan is Dare, and sometimes he's Tris; and Bradshaw is Shaw; and sometimes we call Andrew, Drew, but he doesn't like that very much."
"Why not?"
"He says it's a girls' name, and then Shaw calls him Drusilla. — Suzanne Enoch

There is a difference between running with all your heart with your eyes closed and running with all your heart with your eyes wide open. — Simon Sinek

But when I was quiet ... that made words too. The same words that make horrible things come also tell the quieter things about love. — Andrew Smith