Top 536 Risky Quotes & Sayings

Most things are not as risky as they seem.

I find it relatively easy to keep my clothes on because I don't really feel like taking them off. It's not an urge I have. For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. That's putting myself out there, maybe even more than taking my shirt off.

If by the expression "not practical" you mean "not easy," you are right. Definitely it is not easy. Yet it should be tried. You may say it is risky trying it. Surely it cannot be more risky than trying a nuclear war.

It's an awful risky thing to live

Every time you're making a choice, one choice is the safe/comfortable choice - and one choice is the risky/uncomfortable choice. the risky/uncomfortable choice is the one that will teach you the most and make you grow the most, so that's the one you should choose.

Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.

Bold. Risky. Dramatic. I approve.

After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat.

I think funding risky projects is very important.

As pro snowboarders, skiers, etc., we all know that what we do is risky.

You know what? Starting a car company is risky.

For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

Be risky at work. Be safe with your investments.

I'm seen as a little risky to the industry, I think. All my favorite directors are.

If you look at my career, I've taken on a lot of risky roles.

After I released 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' people started saying, Oh, it's kind of risky. You're coming out with a religious song. And I was thinking, Really? I grew up in Oklahoma; I always had a close relationship with God. I never thought it was risky in the least. If anything, I thought it was the safest thing I could do.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

Defying genre conventions is instantly a risky move.

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

I don't see how it's a risky thing to take a great part with a great director and a great script. That, to me, is not really a dangerous, risky proposition. It's actually a really good choice.

Going with the flow is soothing but risky.

I believe it's less risky long-term to embrace change.

Rather, risk is a perception in each investor's mind that results from analysis of the probability and amount of potential loss from an investment. If an exploratory oil well proves to be a dry hole, it is called risky. If a bond defaults or a stock plunges in price, they are called risky. But if the well is a gusher, the bond matures on schedule, and the stock rallies strongly, can we say they weren't risky when the investment after it is concluded than was known when it was made.

Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.

I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia and fear among the isolated old guard in Moscow.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

Playing safe is very risky.

The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence between mother and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller . . . to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust.

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

Since my professional debut, I've always had a risky game.

Securities based on risky mortgages are what toppled financial institutions but it was the government that made the mortgages risky in the first place, by making home-ownership statistics the holy grail, for which everything else was to be sacrificed, including commonsense standards for making home loans.

I agree with O'Toole that custom and comfort are impediments to change. However, it is important to recognize that resistance to change is logical as well. The new "change masters" literature seems to take change as the norm. It isn't. Humans naturally see change as risky because it is risky, just as mutations in genes are mostly destructive. You would not want to go to work were everything changed every week! The phone system, the office assignments, who reports to who, and the whole set of job expectations.

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

In my misspent youth, I was risky.

Predition is risky, especially of the future.

That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority.

A hardware startup with no funding is a risky venture.

Hillary Clinton's too risky for America.

I'll do things that a lot of people think is very risky.

Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.

I believe there are two types of business people - risky and rational.

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

Investing isn’t risky; not being in control is risky.

If the investor is uneducated, anything he or she invests in will be risky. So it's not the investment that is risky. It's the investor.

I like risky stuff.

It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.

Sometimes, it is important for actors to take risky decisions.

The financial crisis was linked to the fact that banks had excessive leverage and too many risky assets. The solution is not to try to dictate to banks what they can do or not do, but to require them to strengthen their capital to absorb potential losses and hold less risky assets.

A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.

The risk is not in doing something that feels risky. The risk is in not doing something that feels risky.

The times of COVID are extremely risky.

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

I have a humorous side but these days humour can be a risky thing.

A lot of things that people think are risky, I don't think are risky. I don't get all that. I think what was really risky for network television was to let cable television to take the summers.

The best tournament players actually try to avoid risky plays altogether. They prefer to wait for their opponents to make the risky moves. They'll wait patiently until they catch a strong hand. When they do, they'll take down their overly aggressive foes.

It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.

Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.

Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.