A Quote by Kenneth Patchen

That which is not daring is nothing. — © Kenneth Patchen
That which is not daring is nothing.
Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again.
Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.
Life is a daring adventure or nothing.
Daring to dream means daring to live.
Daring is not safe against daring men.
We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is.
Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.
I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.
There's nothing wrong with using the money that you earn to be daring and buy art that you love or that you think is beautiful.
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.
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