Quotes About Adventure

You can't know how amazing this is, how it makes up for everything. I knew that there was something like this out there, because if there wasn't, then life is just dental floss and vegetables and word problems. That can't be everything.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea; I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Something radically new, the producer tells me. Think Virginia Woolf with dead bodies and car chases.

If you can overcome the occasional angst, you may have the chance to see some interesting things, perhaps the same things the tour buses bring people to see, but purified by solitude, if you will. In any case, do not stay in the hotel room. That is the only place you are vulnerable.

Vamos allá, arriesguemos nuestras vidas. Porque si tienen algún valor, es precisamente que no tienen ninguno.

There is one story question per novella, usually in the form: Will X get Y?

Let me once get from this country and give me a dungeon or a hovel in any other").

Curiosity will conquer fear more than bravery will.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity.

To see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls and within rooms, things dangerous to come to, to draw closer, to see and be amazed.

There was a mist of moss to ride through and a storm of glass.

I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something

I knew I seemed a fairly unlikely candidate for an adventure into the unknown. And secretly I doubted that I had what it took, whatever it took, to head off alone to a country most people had never heard of. In light of this, my determination to go puzzled me.

We stop when we reach the top, climb out, shivering in the cold and ghostly mist under wind-blasted trees, to read the sign erected by the Public Works Department: "You have reached Trumseng La, Bhutan's highest road pass. Check Your Brakes. Bash On Regardless. Thank you."

Mitch looked out toward the horizon. "I took up surfing because I wanted to conquer something bigger than my pa, bigger than myself. Out there, I could be free. I could forget my anger, overcome monster waves, and not hurt anyone.

I've come to whisk you away to a land far, far—well, not that far away. I've reserved a table for two on the terrace in La Jolla. And then, who knows?" He clasped her hands.

May you be fearless in exploring uncharted waters. Here's to sailing through life with a smile on your face and joy in your heart—even when the seas are rough. Remember, there are always blue skies ahead.

I love this, and I wish we could keep on driving," Ivy said, the wind whipping a few loose strands of hair back from her forehead that had blown from her ponytail "I haven't seen the Monterrey Peninsula or the Bay area in years. Or the wine country. I've been gone too long.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, 'Do one thing every day that scares you.' From now on, that's what we have to do.

This was my introduction to mountaineering, and clumsy indeed were my movements as we moved off.

I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.