Quotes About Adventure

finis Africae

Not all journeys seek an end. Some are their own purpose.

He was carried over the difficult places in spite of himself; and he went plunging away in mad career—a very Mazeppa-ride upon the wild horse Speculation.

Since his life had been caught up into the current of this great stream, things which had before been the whole of life to him came to seem of relatively slight importance; his interests were elsewhere, in the world of ideas. His outward life was commonplace and uninteresting; he was just a hotel-porter, and expected to remain one while he lived; but meantime, in the realm of thought, his life was a perpetual adventure. There was so much to know—so many wonders to be discovered!

The plane was tiny; it had to be, because, as the pilot said, it must be able to come down on a half dollar. It flew as low as possible in order to escape detection by enemy radar. To be sure, that made a danger of church steeples and tall trees in the darkness; but then, as Frederick the Great had said to his troops, "Do you want to live forever?

Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.

It was as Nazruddin had said, when I asked him about visas and he had said that bank notes were better. 'You can always get into those places. What is hard is to get out. That is a private fight. Everybody has to find his own way.

My wish for an adventure with Yvette was a wish to be taken up to the skies, to be removed from the life I had – the dullness, the pointless tension, 'the situation of the country'. It wasn't a wish to be involved with people as trapped as myself.

I would say to her, in that mixed river language we used, 'One day, Beth, somebody will snatch your case. It isn't safe to travel about with money like that.' 'The day that happens, Mis' Salim, I will know the time has come to stay home.' It was a strange way of thinking. But she was a strange woman.

Whatever they say about going back to the beginning, they'll be interested in the car.

Malcolm Goodwin's Holy Grail

Nun aber weiter, mein Gast, sagte sie [Dido], berichte uns ganz von Anfang die Listen der Danaer, den Untergang der Deinen und deine Irrfahrten [...]

Si yo no hiciera al menos una locura por año, me volvería loco

La vida es un viaje en paracaídas y no lo que tú quieres creer.

and life, Mr. Finchley discovered, was nothing if it did not hold adventure and romance.

They drank one another's health like men who meet to part upon the dark paths of a great adventure.

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her

No fear, no regrets.

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

Voyager, c'est naître et mourir à chaque instant.

He loved to saunter through fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds nearly as much as with events.

On s'en va parce qu'on a besoin de distraction et l'on revient parce qu'on a besoin de bonheur.