Quotes About Adventure

different ways. Some to Spain, others to

He grinned at Sharpe. "Christ, but this is joy! What would we do for happiness if peace came?" He turned his horse clumsily, rammed his heels back, and whooped as the horse took off. "Let's go get the whores!

Someone, I thought, knew where Ice-Spite was hidden. And I would find her.

Juan Fernandez islands." Cochrane drew on the cigar and watched its smoke drift out the window. "The islands are three hundred fifty miles off the coast, in the middle of nothing! They're where Robinson Crusoe was marooned, or rather where Alexander Selkirk, who was the original of Crusoe, spent four not uncomfortable years.

Sometimes, when I tell folk my story, they ask why I did not run away from the pagans, why I did not escape southward into the lands where the Danes did not yet rule, but it never occurred to me to try. I was happy, I was alive, I was with Ragnar, and it was enough.

Bernard Cornwell

I was without a lord. I was outcast. I was free. I was going Viking.

I don't care if he's got a tail and tits, just take me to him." The

Bernard Cornwell

There's no point in kicking a wild bee's nest, not unless you're determined to get the honey.

The sun shone on us, the water sparkled, the oar-blades dipped and we were gone. Gone to make history.

Once upon a time, in a land that was called Britain, these things happened.

They were Danes, which meant they were planning mischief.

Life is a story without an end.

Where a boy runs he never forgets.

Save yourself for my sake. And I will go with you to the end of the world.

My dear: in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

life is an adventure to be embraced with an open mind and loving heart

Die Wege in die Andere Welt sind so zahlreich und verschlungen wie die Flüsse und Bäche, die dem Meer entgegenstreben.

Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored

Man needs, for his happiness, not merely the enjoyment of this or that, but hope, and enterprise and change.

But although the world was happy, some savour had gone out of life, since safety had been preferred to adventure.

I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people could descend in very fragile canoes, and they should contain bathing pools full of mechanical sharks. Any person found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours a day with these ingenious monsters.

The problem of the social reformer, therefore, is not merely to seek means of security, for if these means when found provide no deep satisfaction the security will be thrown away for the glory of adventure.