Quotes About Adventure

the next day, bearing precious guanacos, and received still more gifts in trade, but then he was not seen or heard from again.

set sail for the Spice Islands.

generation earlier, Manuel's father had sent ships to intercept Columbus.

Dare to live the truth of your myth.

Allow yourself to wander and travel through your world for one day without resorting to dividing the world up into pairs of opposites. The Journey Without Aim is often propitious.

some individuals choose to move to remote and exotic locations

The summit is not the only place on the mountain.

The perfect adventure shouldn't be that much more hazardous in a real sense than ordinary life, for that invisible rope that holds us here can always break. We can live a life of bored caution and die of cancer. Better to take the adventure, minimize the risks, get the information, and then go forward in the knowledge that we've done everything we can. No

He wasn't happy unless he was going so fast that one misstep would send him riding shotgun in heaven.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

A man should know something of his own country, too, before he goes abroad.

There is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

I think there is a fatality in it—I seldom go to the place I set out for.

The feather put into his cap of having been abroad.

Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand.

No guts, no glory.

I had never thought of school as fun before, but then, I'd never before had a hummingbird, a witch, or a maybe-immortal for teachers.

Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.

You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly" -Baby Carlyle

There is no more pressure on my rudder, he once remarked. Plain sailing, no drag on other people either. A bit of dancing now and then, that's fine. I still see those girls, but I pretend they're paintings. Or advertisements. But that was only later.

Ik heb het ongelukkige karakter van iemand die altijd achter de volgende heuvel wil kijken, en die nog steeds niet geleerd heeft dat daarachter weer een andere heuvel ligt.

Quello che faccio io non si può quasi più chiamare viaggiare, non si scopre più niente, si digita, controlla, smentisce e conferma, immagini e idee vengono confrontate con la "realtà", ciò che in ultima istanza vado a fare è vedere se il Giappone esiste davvero, come se uno spettatore al cinema potesse entrare nello schermo e sedersi a tavola con i protagonisti.

Love was not a drink one tasted and then rejected. Love was not something that could be avoided or arranged. Love was a highwayman, standing by the road of life, just waiting to strike at the reckless and the few.