Quotes About Adventure

The great thing about the British SAS was that they viewed war the same way the American Special Operations community did. You didn't win by thinking inside the box and following someone else's rules. You turned the box upside down and made your own rules, no matter what the enemy threw at you.

Wells, though, had never touched her. It would have been like mixing alcohol and firearms. Guaranteed to be a lot of fun, right up until it wasn't.

ridden the Star Ferry from Hong Kong to Kowloon and back, had suffered two hours of rain in Hong Kong's Wanchai District, had gone up and down the Peak Tram, and had arrived at Hong Kong's Jetfoil terminal just in time to catch the last high-speed boat to Macau.

We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.

Do not fear to think even the most not-probable.

We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways.

Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.

We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England.

Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise. And like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

it seemed to him as if Mr Norrell had discovered some fifth point of the compass – not east, nor south, nor west, nor north, but somewhere quite different and this was the direction in which he led them.

As a scientist and an explorer I have a duty to bear witness to the splendours of the world.

Mr. Honeyfoot's post-chaise travelled through a world that seemed to contain a much higher proportion of chill grey sky and a much smaller one of solid comfortable earth than was usually the case.

Two days ago I gathered together supplies for the journey: food, blankets, a small saucepan in which to heat water and some rags.

He has no desire to explore the World. (pg. 49)

I went to the North-Eastern Corner and climbed up to the Statue of an Angel caught on a Rose Bush. I fetched out my brown leather messenger bag. I took all of my Journals out of it. There were nine of them. Just nine. I did not find twenty others that I had inexplicably overlooked until this moment.

Kehidupan adalah perjalanan yang harus ditempuh, bukanlah kepompong tempat kau hanya bisa meregangkan kakimu

Priznam, misli mi ve?krat skrenejo s poti, namesto da bi se držala glavne ceste, rada zavijem na skrite stranske steze. Dajem vtis, kot da sem se izgubila, in mogo?e sem se res, a po tej poti moraš, ?e ho?eš najti jedro, ki ga tako vneto iš?eš.

Los espacios cerrados producen limitaciones extraordinarias en los hombres. Es necesario estar fuera, al aire libre, para admitir que hay cosas que no logras comprender; y eta concienciación no es una derrota sino una posibilidad que tienes de grandeza. A partir de ahí puedes hacer viajes extraordinarios...

And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.

He smiled. "Happy anniversary, Samantha Jellicoe. So, Godzilla, or sex?" Samantha laughed. "How about both?" "I like that. I get to be Godzilla." "I guess that makes me Tokyo.

That was the thing about courage, she was discovering. It opened so much more of the world to her than she'd expected. A

What's so ludicrous about Rafael wanting to travel?' 'He has a life here. He's a Bancroft, for God's sake.' 'I believe he thinks he's already explored that aspect of his life to death, Quinlan.

Is there anything else ye require, aside from yer freedom and a coach with four white horses to carry ye away from here?" "The horses don't have to be white," she returned. "I'm not particular.