#venture

Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day? ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#funny #humour #lotr #pippin #poetry

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#anything #assurance #earth #fullness #god

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#life #must #need #remains #some

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#adventure #disease #like #typhus

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#adventure #compelling #creative #finds #high

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#defeat #every #laughter #listen #mistaken

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#bring #chore #chosen #course #glory

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it. ↗

— Ridley Scott

#almost #because #could #creating #degree

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done. ↗

— David Selby

#commercially #done #enables #endowment #important

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#came #each #everyone #going #great