Quotes About Adventure

Presently Peter sneezed Kertyschoo!

He led the way to a very retired, dismal-looking house amongst the fox-gloves. It

everything he broke. He found a crooked sixpence under the hearth-rug; and upon Christmas Eve he and Hunca Munca stuffed it into one

sees them trapped and they are rescued by Benjamin's

He took a wrong turn—several wrong turns, and was quite lost. It

Beatrix Potter

a time there were four little Rabbits

Of all Virginia Swan's extraordinary adventures on her first trip to New York City, this visit

About Anna Faktorovich's Romances of George Sand: "What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.

And I was already on my way to being a true freak because I knew I would always choose to go where my blood beats, in any and all directions.

Living in the Kentucky hills was where I first learned the importance of being wild.

I told the waiter I was looking for a hotel whose name I didn't know on a street whose name I didn't know and could he help me; we both laughed and he said: Aren't we all.

The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

I promise to pass through a series of worlds with you," I remembered from her vows.

freedom to take risks—and fail—define the heart of a Skunk Works operation.

Quien se conforme con ganancias seguras, difícilmente llegará a amasar grandes riquezas; quien lo fíe todo a grandes aventuras, frecuentemente quebrará y caerá en la pobreza: es bueno, por lo tanto, proteger las aventuras con los frutos de la certidumbre para que puedan soportar las pérdidas. Sir Francis Bacon

I have a path to follow, I said, and it goes north. North back to Bebbanburg.

E fiquei olhando para aquela costa, sabendo que o destino iria me trazer de volta, e toquei o punho de Bafo de Serpente, porque a espada também tinha um destino e eu sabia que ela voltaria a este local. Este era um local para minha espada cantar.

Senhor Uhtred! - O padre Willibald veio correndo na minha direção. - O que está acontecendo? O que está acontecendo? - Decidi começar uma guerra, padre - respondi cheio de animação. - É muito mais interessante que a paz.

It was madness. And, as Finan had said, sometimes madness works.

There is such joy in a good ship, and a greater joy to have the ship's belly fat with other men's silver. It is the Viking joy, driving a dragon-headed hull through a wind-driven sea towards a future full of feasts and laughter. The Danes taught me that and I love them for it.

At sea, sometimes, if you take a ship too far from land and the wind rises and the tide sucks with a venomous force and the waves splinter white above the shield-pegs, you have no choice but to go where the gods will.

Just what do you plan to do, Sharpe? the Lieutenant asked. Don't know, sir. Won't know till we get there. You're going to the mine? Aye, sir. There'll be guards. Like as not. And only two of us. I can count, sir. Sharpe grinned. It's reading I find hard. But my letters are coming on, aren't they?

Sharpe is the epitome of a nineteenth-century, romantic working-class hero. Cool, flash and fragrant … Escape and enjoy' Daily Express