Quotes About Adventure

You can find that life—if you are willing to embark on a great adventure.

What sort of tale have I fallen into? is a question that would help us all a great deal if we wondered it for ourselves.

we were made to be a part of a great adventure. An adventure that is shared. We do not want the adventure merely for adventure's sake but for what it requires of us for others. We don't want to be alone in it; we want to be in it with others.

Frodo could not be a hero unless he was born into a story with many chapters already played out before his own. His moment derives its weight and urgency from the moments that have come before.

in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to love.

The reason we love The Chronicles of Narnia or Star Wars or The Matrix or The Lord of the Rings is that they are telling us something about our lives that we never, ever get on the evening news. Or from most pulpits. This is our most desperate hour. Without this burning in our hearts, we lose the meaning of our days.

The amount of risk you're willing to take in your life is a direct reflection of what you believe about God.

want to ride to the ridge where the west commences I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in. Cole Porter

They may be misplaced, forgotten, or misdirected, but in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to love.

The adventures and work that we choose must fit the soul of the boy. One young man's adventure would be terrifying to another. Now

Somehow, somewhere between our youth and yesterday, efficiency has taken the place of adventure.

Tu lugar está entre las flores silvestres. Tu lugar está en un barco en alta mar. Tu lugar está con tu amor de tu brazo. Tu lugar está en donde te sientas libre. Wildflowers [Flores silvestres], TOM PETTY

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

What are you, where did you come from, and whither are you bound?"— the question which from Homer's days has been put to the wayfarer in strange lands — is likewise the all-absorbing question which man is ever asking of the universe of which he is himself so tiny yet so wondrous a part.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

The feeling that he would probably betray me. And I've always thought of marriage as a sort of young adventure, two people of the same age setting out together, discovering together, growing together. But I would have nothing to tell him, nothing to show him. All the helping would be on his side.

Visitors to Lyme in the nineteenth century, if they did not quite have to undergo the ordeal facing travellers to the ancient Greek colonies -Charles did not actually have to deliver a Periclean oration plus comprehensive world news summary from the steps of the Town Hall- were certainly expected to allow themselves to be examined and spoken to.

It poured with rain the day I left. But I was filled with excitement, a strange exuberant sense of taking wing. I didn't know where I was going, but I knew what I needed. I needed a new land, a new race, a new language; and although I couldn't have put it into words then, I needed a new mystery.

Gulliver was soon being read from the cabinet council to the nursery.

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America

Charles Waterman, Gerald Almy

I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel? Well, the answer to that one is easy. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.