"If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory."

-- John L. Phillips

#Risk Quotes #Might Quotes #Territory Quotes

“I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.”
“I definitely think it [the key to maintain success] is a number of things. It's having the right people behind you. It's having the right work ethic. It's having the right mind-set. And it's also a little bit of luck.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.”
“I now extend to you the invitation to help transform the trickle into a floodâ€¦.I exhort you to sweep the earth with messages filled with righteousness and truthâ€”messages that are authentic, edifying, and praiseworthyâ€”and literally to sweep the earth as with a flood.”
“At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.”

Source : Indra Sinha (2016). “Animal's People”, p.135, Simon and Schuster
“What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. Youâ€™ve got a prescribed set of requirements to guide you through the next few years. Focus your energy on the completion of those assignments and youâ€™ll succeed. Guaranteed. Whereâ€™s my syllabus to guide me through life?”
“Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses; Cupid paid; He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip,--the rose Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how) With these, the crystal on his brow, And then the dimple of his chin; All these did my campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes, She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! hath she done this to thee? What shall, alas! become of me?”
“When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're using some of the methods of fiction writing. You're lying, but some of the details may well come from your general recollection rather than from the particular scene. In the end it comes down to the readers. If they believe you, you're OK. A memoirist is really like any other con man; if he's convincing, he's home. If he isn't, it doesn't really matter whether it happened, he hasn't succeeded in making it feel convincing.”

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