#ventures

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#commissioned #else #ends #enthusiast #execution

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#adventures #also #believe #bittersweet #does

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#bad #happened #life #little #make

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#bad #been #good #good and bad #had

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

نحن نرفض النظر إلى الحياة بوصفها مغامرة كبرى لا حدود لها ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #novel #life

fury said to a mouse that he met in the house let us both go to law; I will prosecute you let there be no denial; come, we must have a trial for really, this morning, I've nothing to do such a trial, dear sir, said the mouse to the cur without jury or judge would be wasting our breath I'll be judge, I'll be jury said cunning old fury I'll try the whole cause and condemn you to death ↗

— Lewis Carrol

#death

Let's not grow with our roots in the ground. ↗

— Criss Jami

#divine #experiences #flying #freedom #grow

It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#entitled-in-love #love-story #toxic #life

Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor. ↗

— Sally Armstrong

#adventure-romance #adventuresome-women #canadian #historical #native-american