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Quotes About Adventure

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.
~ Orson Scott Card
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was a stunt man for 35 years.
~ Richard Farnsworth
Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.
~ Richard Paul Evans
A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
~ Rick Yancey
The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.
~ Robert E. Howard
There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.
~ H. L. Mencken
Man must move to things, to non-human matter- There is nowhere else to go.
~ Harry Hooton
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'
~ Herman Melville
I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.
~ Jack Ma
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
~ James Russell Lowell
It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.
~ Jim Butcher
I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I'm a yes man.
~ Jim Carrey
Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Wild men are so enormously attractive.
~ Jo Brand
Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
~ John Heywood
Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth
~ John Masefield
In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.
~ John Muir