Quotes About Adventure

History is like a jungle, and no clearing that one cuts into it opens up the whole forest.

I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

Embracing and being thankful for the family and friends I do have instead of yearning for the family I cannot know or have has helped erase the hollowness I felt when I first found out. When I consider my good health, sense of humor, adventurous side, creative gifts and even my quirky phobias, I am grateful that the two people responsible for creating me existed." (Maddie Saunders, the heroine)

Må andra lyssna till tal om blommor och solsken, men för mig väljer jag de mörka nätterna, fulla av syner och äventyr, för mig de hårda ödena, för mig förvildade hjärtans sorguppfyllda lidelser.

Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last

He who is brave is free.

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.

You'll soon learn most of our stories are quite the same, James. I'm sure you'll find all of us are either running away from or running to something.

Soon all of us will go to moon on trade union holidays

Doroga k Zvjozdam Otkrita. (The way to the stars is open.)

You're on your own little quest, an there's a bit of Frodo Baggins in you, and a bit of Verne's Paganel, and just a tiny drop of Robinson Cursoe, and a smidgeon of Radishchev.

That's the paradox, people aren't interested in reading about settling on Mars or flying to the stars—all the things that people really can achieve, but Others can't. But they dream about becoming magicians, rushing into battle with a big sharp sword…. If only they knew what the wounds from a real sword look like!…What does all this mean? That a medieval world in which magic exists is the one most attractive to people!

Jak dobrze by? mÅ'odym i mie? gorÄ…cÄ… gÅ'owÄ™! Wierzy?, ?e ciemno?? ma serce, wróg imiÄ™, a eksperymenty cel.

Qué poca piedad me inspiran los que son incapaces de cambiar de lugar, excepto como turistas, aquellos para los que lo nuevo viene siempre de afuera y siempre como curiosidad o diversión, los que son lo que son a rajatabla, los empeñados en el peñasco, en la tristeza del efecto.

nunca se trata de un solo vuelo, a menos que uno sepa que no va a volver, con lo cual la mitad de un viaje resulta ser todo el viaje.

pero lo cierto es que sólo se va quien no tiene nada que perder

Jesus was the original radical. He announced the arrival of a kingdom that would stand common sense on its head. Early on, after his disciples saw him heal the sick and rout the enemy, Jesus turned his boys loose on the countryside. They'd seen enough. Now it was time to do what Jesus had done: heal the sick, raise the dead, and declare the kingdom. (The whole great adventure is chronicled in Luke 9 and 10).

The World Race is an eleven-month program that initiates young adults into a lifestyle of following Jesus by living as the early disciples did for a year.

We can't be fully transformed in our own backyard. We need to journey.

Journeys cause you to put your status quo self into foreclosure and put a down payment on your truest self.

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood

If you can't have a little fun when you're carrying out an assassination, then what's the point?