#vent

Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit. ↗

— Tom Cochrane

#australia #break #canada #cultural #ground

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#covered #habit #keeps #prevents #realism

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#background #became #bigger #books #eventually

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#apply #been #beyond #caught #circumstances

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#adventurous #change #embrace #exciting #familiar

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adventure #always #good #guarantee #inevitability

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#could #either #events #felt #hesitates

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#cast #continuance #day #dies #down

Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded. ↗

— Fritz Zwicky

#adventure #again #also #big #big adventure

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. ↗

— Robert Collier

#between #cannot #continually #difference #eventually