Venture Quotes

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. (Charles Caleb Colton)
But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. View quote
Emil Cioran
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. View quote
Virginia Woolf
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. View quote
Walter Scott
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. View quote
Richard M. DeVos
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life. View quote
Viktor Frankl
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE. View quote
Max Heindel
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. View quote
Carl Sandburg
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. (Frances Wright)
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. View quote
Horace
But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over. View quote
Paul Reiser
These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world. View quote
Alain de Botton
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. View quote
Ayn Rand
The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques.. .Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. View quote
Jack Kerouac
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. View quote
Jack Kerouac
I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult. View quote
Seneca
Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction. (Cyril Connolly)
Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original. View quote
William Cowper
I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of the most important that can be held by any Englishman; and those qualifications are that in the first place I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen. View quote
Joseph Chamberlain
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all. View quote
Brad Pitt