Quotes About Adventure

She did, now, want to escape. She had a lot to do; to get on with... there was so much, enjoyably much, to be done.

Climbing, simply and joyfully, is the way I love the world.

As a free solo climber, when trying extremely difficult or dangerous movements on rock for the first time, I try it first with the safety of a rope.

I just wanted to fly, for that one weightless minute of time streaking through the sky. It felt like nothing I'd ever experienced.

I liked that they didn't ask me about anything other than here and now, because here and now was working for me. I liked the intense, fun-loving energy around me, the feeling of being part of a group. Even more, I liked being a stranger to the new friends I was making in this new world.

I have always felt safest alone on the side of a hard-to-reach wall or a mountain. Although I understand that I could die in the mountains, I trust the hand of nature, and I know it will do me no harm. People seem to change and do confusing things. Places, on the other hand, I can count on.

I felt strong enough to go back down to piece together the exposed, powerful moves on the second pitch of the headwall, the "boulder problem pitch.

Falling out of a plane was a potentially life-threatening situation where I was an incompetent passenger with no chance of saving myself if I had to. Those were the elements of my ultimate nightmare, and in retrospect I realized I could never have liked it.

I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

Now they needed a man to go across the line. Col. T.B. Hargis, Jr. called in Capt. Tom Stewart. Stewart, 30, was lanky, bookish and witty, a devout Christian and the son of a semi-famous senator from Tennessee. It's likely he was chosen because he was decisive and smart. He knew a smattering of German — plus he could ride a horse. That was more than enough to qualify him for the job.

Some of the happiest moments in life result from rash decisions. You should try it sometime.

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday I got a .22. He got a hunting knife I got a hunting knife.

Look for the copper tablet-box, Undo its bronze lock, Open the door to its secret, Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and read it, The story of that man, Gilgamesh, who went through all kinds of sufferings.

Si vienes aquí, puedo garantizarte que esta noche no regresarás a tu cama. ¿Me he expresado con claridad?

to the back of the wagon.

You are riding for a fall, Your Grace," "I'll be riding you before Christmas.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

Hal...cleared his throat."....Doing the hard stuff's what makes it an adventure.

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

The earth is enjoyed by heroes"—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, "I have no fear.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.