Venture Quotes
444 Venture quotes by 374 unique authors
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Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of…
— Carl Sagan
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Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not…
— Hermann Hesse
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When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age,…
— Mark Rothko
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Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish…
— Thomas Pynchon
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It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
— Ayn Rand
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It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the…
— Maya Angelou
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Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a…
— Erich Fromm
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No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to…
— Donald Miller
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My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small…
— Libba Bray
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Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets,…
— Gene Wolfe
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By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world. But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.
— Jim Butcher
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Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store’s checkout girl grow horns. Imagine…
— Douglas Coupland
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It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and…
— Muriel Barbery
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Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea,…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
— Michael Cunningham
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Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one…
— Frank O'Hara
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The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed…
— Suzanne Collins
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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