Quotes About Adventure

once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

Oh, I am—it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.

To me the only death is monotony. I always say to Ellen: Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Sir Helmsley lo accusava di sottoporsi al lavoro solo per amore dell'avventura; ma, benché addolorato per la decisione presa dal figlio, lo rispettava per avervi tenuto fede. «Io stesso sono stato tutto un brillante fallimento», aveva borbottato alla fine della loro discussione; e Guy di rimando, ridendo: «Allora cercherò di essere un tetro successo».

el matrimonio no era un anclaje en puerto seguro, como le habían enseñado, sino un viaje por mares que no figuran en los mapas.

marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the repletest sight-seer.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

îÈ™i d?duse seama c? fusese obiÈ™nuit s? vad? în c?s?torie un liman sigur, când de fapt era mai degrab? o peregrinare pe m?ri necunoscute.

where there are cottages, there will be tots also, squatting pensively in the dust or moving unsteadily about, absorbed in the tremendous adventure of proceeding unaided from one point to the next.

Once you can comfortably walk three or four miles without stopping, consider taking hiking trips—day or overnight—in county, state, or national parks. Hiking outdoors can revitalize your soul as much as it does your body.

Thanks to herculean skinning and salting by Heller and Mearns, he can congratulate himself on having shipped, via the railway to Mombasa, "a collection of large animals such as has never been obtained for any other museum in the world on a single trip." The

Le Chasseur des solitudes).

I still feel like a young girl, as though everything is about to happen.

Youngsters can plunder a text and find what they want in the margins.

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

For equipment she had youth, curiosity, a steel strong frame...four hundred ninety-seven dollars; and a gay adventuresome spirit that was never to die, though it led her into curious places and she often found, at the end, only a trackless waste from which she had to retrace her steps, painfully. But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and Burgundy, crysoprase and porphyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

That was the thing about America, people always moving on, so that a girl had to snap up a beau as fast as she could.

One might well think of [Going Mobile by Glen Engel-Cox] as a Carol Emshwiller or Connie Willis story...with balls.

It was time to move on, which is why I'm now living here in the land of the cuckoo clock. Didn't someone once say, "all successful careers in finance end up in Switzerland?

invasion titled The Riddle of the Sands. It became his most successful novel.

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

Mr Earbrass escaped from Messrs Scuffle and Dustcough, who were most anxious to go into all the ramifications of a scheme for having his novels translated into Urdu, and went to call on a distant cousin.

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.