Quotes About Adventure

Where would we go?' she asked. 'Far, far away.' His eyes dipped to her lips when she moistened them with her tongue. 'Ah.' Her voice was a breathless whisper. 'The very best place to go.

It had been surprisingly easy to begin a new life.

But it was not just his kisses that she missed. There was something else about the man that exhilarated her, something that appealed to a kindred spirit in her. Mr. Seyton was a man with a goal in life, and he was willing to work toward that goal even at the expense of his own safety. There was a spirit of adventure in him. Kate found herself envying him greatly. If only there could be more adventure in her life! She would burst soon at the boredom of her present existence.

Life is fraught with risks

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believe most people live their lives within a radius of a few miles of their childhood homes," she said. "Not many people go adventuring. And even those who do have to take themselves with them. That must turn out to be a bit of a disappointment.

The heavens are about to open. I think you must prepare for a wicked night of sin with me, Mrs. Ingram. We seem to have a habit of getting ourselves into such situations during rain storms, do we not?

She wished that somewhere in her future there could be a man who would make the world an exciting place in which to live.

All children are mad daredevils. I suppose we become too staid and dull as we grow up.

She wondered how possible it was going to be to start a new life.

When you travel, there really are no mistakes--just learning opportunities.

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Since few people arrive at retirement with an understanding that this transition will involve a rethinking of who they are, an interim pattern has emerged, in which travel offers a way of fulfilling deferred daydreams of adventure while the next stage takes shape. [p. 31]

IF YOU WANT A STORYBOOK ENDING, stop—now—and remember them in that tender moment. Be content to know that they embarked on a series of adventures throughout the West and that they stayed together through thick and thin for forty-five years. But know this as well: If their story ended here, no one would remember them at all. Where a tale begins and where it ends matters. Who tells the story, and why . . . That makes all the difference.

WELL, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, the Stella Maris is on her way out of the solar system

Anne shrieked with laughter, but George yelled, "I don't suppose we could get a little gravity around here?" and D.W. hollered back, Nope. All we got is levity." And thus began the first morning of the Jesuit mission to Rakhat. [148]

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs

For Ben, watching the bad guys blow up buildings and try to shoot down airliners just never got old.

independent working girls out in the world, in pursuit of the kind of adventure that would strengthen, not deplete, us, as we would then be armed with experience.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.

In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.

Three Things to Remember As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules.