Quotes About Adventure

She fell in love with him, and to save his life smuggled him a sword and taught him the way through the Labyrinth, which she had learned from Daedalus himself.

That word between us, Ithaca, like the breaking of a spell.

There was a wildness in me, of hope and terror.

I suppose that is true. You said that he shaped kingdoms, but he also shaped the thoughts of men. Before him, all the heroes were Heracles and Jason. Now children will play at voyaging, conquering hostile lands with wits and words.

The gray-eyed maiden has ever been kind to me," Odysseus said, almost apologetically. "She knows why I am here; she blesses and guards my purpose.

I will go," he said. "I will go to Troy.

But I barely noticed these things. I thought only of the small island flung out somewhere in front of me, and the fair-haired boy I hoped I would find there.

I thought only of the small island flung out somewhere in front of me, and the fair-haired boy I hoped I would find there.

They hurried back to their ship, strained at their oars, eager to vanish over the horizon. I watched until the moment they winked out, like a snuffed flame.

I yanked my gaze to Odysseus and Diomedes, and was horrified to see them smiling. 'Greeting, Price Achilles,' Odysseus said. 'We've been looking for you.

Odiseo, hijo de Laertes, el gran viajero, príncipe de mil argucias y artimañas, me había enseñado sus cicatrices y, a cambio, me había permitido fingir que yo no tenía ninguna.

Il peggio della mia codardia era stato smaltito, lasciando il posto a una frastornante esaltazione. Non me ne starò come un uccello in gabbia, pensai, troppo stordito per volare via anche con la porta aperta. Entrai in quel bosco e la mia vita ebbe inizio.

I loved his certainty, his world that was an easy place of right action divided sharply from wrong, of mistake and consequence, of monsters defeated. It was no world I knew, but I would live in it as long as he would let me.

All this while I have been a weaver without wool, a ship without the sea. Yet now look where I sail.

He recited the story as if he were giving a recipe for meat. The storms that had blown them half across the world. The lands filled with cannibals and vengeful savages, with sybarites who drugged their wills. They had been ambushed by the cyclops Polyphemus, a savage one-eyed giant who was a son of Poseidon. He had eaten half a dozen men and sucked their bones. Odysseus had had to blind him to escape, and now Poseidon hunted them across the waves in vengeance

there is a story you should hear.

Nel mio petto vibrava qualcosa a cui non riuscivo esattamente a dare un nome. Desiderio di fuga, pericolo, speranza, tutto allo stesso tempo".

Any Challenge was a game, and any game a pleasure.

The vacation house of the Führer. Seeing the Eagles Nest has been on my bucket list for awhile, it did not disappoint.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Its better to live a goat than 100 sheep.

When I came to New York it was the first time I'd ever taken a plane, the first time I'd ever gotten a taxi-cab, the first time for everything. And I came here with 35 dollars in my pocket. It was the bravest thing I'd ever done.

Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual. I mean, is there a rule? Are you supposed to just die?

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.