Quotes About Adventure

Que mundo! Kilómetros y kilómetros, cosas y más cosas, un cúmulo de riquezas inimaginables..., ¡y ella podía haberse quedado sin conocerlo!

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.

Three thousand Russian families were sent to colonize Azof,

set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts

Jack. "It's a picture of these woods!

Spies? Foreigners? Egyptians? Romans? Persians?

Annie, I hope you and your brother have a safe trip in your magic tree house," said Mr.

ago, pirates raided Spanish treasure

I wish we could go there," he said. The wind started to blow. Jack looked out one last time at the Chinese couple. They seemed to be glowing like stars.

And millions of books," said Annie.

recognize you Ã¢â'¬Â¦." "We're just visiting," said Annie. "But we know all about you. You're Sir Lancelot, aren't you?" "Yes," breathed the knight. "And Sir Percival and Sir Galahad," said Jack. "Yes Ã¢â'¬Â¦ my son, Galahad Ã¢â'¬Â¦ ," said the knight. "King Arthur thinks you are lost forever," said Annie.

Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.

It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they feel the black cold of chaos.

where there is war there's spoil. From this it was not far to roving on adventure. Young men could set themselves up in life; kings could grow rich without hard taxes, which pleased their people;

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

Life is always there for the courageous! But change involves risk... and a kind of mourning for what you leave behind you.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Tibb has admonished me to be careful which road I walked, but in truth no road was simple, straightforward, or, indeed, what it appeared to be at first glimpse. Every path was tricksy, full of turns and twists and blind corners with God-only-knew-what dangers lurching round the bend.

If anyone was to perform the classic folly of taking a midnight stroll among the murderous gentlemen with whom the hotel was probably packed, it was not going to be me.

Children ask me sometimes what book I'd take to a desert island, but I think I couldn't go to a desert island unless it had a library.

Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.