Just going outside put me at risk of winding up dead or captured. If I let that daunt me, I’d never do anything.
– Samantha Shannon
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- Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I’m a chess piece. A pawn,’ she said. ‘I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game. – Paolo Bacigalupi
- Risk little, earn little. Risk much, earn much. Risk all, earn all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- There’s no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief. – Elizabeth von Arnim
- War has often been called a game, with good reason. Both have combatants. Both have sides. Both carry the risk of losing. – Samantha Shannon
- Everything’s a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. – Nicola Yoon
- Pay attention,- Gareth said to Moxie. -œIf it comes down to a choice of gettin’ captured or killed by Saxons or brigands, dead is less bad, – Hank Quense
- To love is to risk, and to risk is to lose sometimes, to get hurt. But let it not deter you from loving again, from being happy. – Jocelyn Soriano
- Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured. – Shannon A Thompson
- The only person worth risking everything for is the one person that would never let you risk everything for. – Shannon L Alder
- Why not risk your life, if you don’t want to live anyway? Why not risk your life if you’ll never be happy no matter what you do? – Cassandra Clare
- The War,’ said a soldier proverb, ‘will last a hundred years–five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire. – Preston William Slosson
- Your destiny will not carry you over the long and winding path of life. You must walk it yourself. – Ian Sgal
- Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route. – Gail Z Martin
- Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape. – CS Lewis
- Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It’s your heart that will really keep you on tack… and nourished along the way. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line. – Alice McCall
- All rising to a great place is by a winding stair. – Francis Bacon
- Look, he’s winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. – William Shakespeare
- Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead – Rick Yancey
- Don’t cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Never allow yourself to believe you should be silent. – Samantha Shannon
- There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart. – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anas Nin
- The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary. – Iveta Cherneva
- We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- To embrace love, we risk heartbreak. To resist love, we risk emptiness. – Jennifer Lane
- Every chance worth taking will make you a little scared. That means you’re taking a risk. And where there is risk, there is reward. – Elise Kova
- And it certainly wasn’t a choice without risk. But then very few worthwhile things in life are. The greater the risk, the greater the reward. – Heather Hackett
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anas Nin
- Victory takes risk and risk takes courage to overcome the evil demons from our past. – Cecibel Contreras
- You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off. – Lauren DeStefano
- …one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. – Markus Zusak
- If GOD can raise a dead man, then He can raise a living man’s dead anything. – TemitOpe Ibrahim
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- Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair. – Samantha Shannon
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- Nothing’s worse than a story without an end. – Samantha Shannon