Quotes About Adventure

We used to believe that the highway went somewhere, that over the horizon was escape, places we'd never been and thought we wanted to go.

I...should have...risked it." She grasped Alex's hand in both of hers as if she were cupping life-giving water. "Life isn't...meant to be spent...hiding in the corner with your arms huddled over your head, protecting...yourself from anything that might hurt you. Life should be...embraced.

Sometimes you have to break a few rules in life, especially when the stakes are high enough.

That's what I thought I wanted. A nice, safe, uneventful life…Safe and uneventful are just other words for lonely. - Matt Harte

I am going to the white kingdom where the colours if all things can be found.

Laughter broke from them. It spread into a roar of acclamation; for bluff is a weapon dear to every adventurer.

Id is fery boedigal!" he said, his blue eyes twinkling. "Cabdain Blood is fond of boedry - you remember de abble-blossoms. So? Ha, ha!

If Mr. Blood had condescended to debate the matter with these ladies, he might have urged that having had his fill of wandering and adventuring, he was now embarked upon the career for which he had been originally intended and for which his studies had equipped him; that he was a man of medicine and not of war; a healer, not a slayer.

Whilst I'll take any risk that I must, I'll take none that I needn't.

And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regard as the maddest part of a mad species.

Be brave, be bold, my dear, but do not be too bold. Do not go looking for trouble. It has a way of finding you on its own, soon enough. -Rose

Warm. Wet. Woman. Tyrel Kincaid listed his needs in that order. He was standing at the end of the planked bar of a miner's saloon in a back-of-nowhere camp

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find. —WALT WHITMAN

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Travel is a fools paradise.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.