Rick Riordan Quotes

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

There are going to be screw-ups, mistakes, confusion, and missteps. One hopes they won’t be fatal.

Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

Life, unfortunately, doesnʹt seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.

Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.

There were many who went in huddled procession,They knew not wither,But, at any rate, success or calamityWould attend all in equality.There was one who sought a new road,He went into direful thickets,And ultimately he died thus, alone;But they said he had courage.

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.