Quotes About Adventure

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person – beguiled, enchanted.

This is your life, and it's been waiting for you to discover it!

Echte zekerheid is weten dat je geen zekerheid hebt, want dan zorg je er wel voor dat je elke dag alles uit het leven haalt.

she wouldn't just be getting the time of her life…She'd be getting the ride of her life.

We should all have personal hot air balloons and drift serenely through the clouds.

How quickly life can change. Well, maybe it was time that it changed again. I was in a beautiful place, staying with a kind woman, and I was going to enjoy myself, whatever the outcome was.

Aren't you going a little overboard?" I asked, picturing a day ahead of me trying to find these items in a town I didn't know. "Nonsense, darling. What's the point of a party if you don't go overboard." I sat on the sofa watching her, admiring her. Not only was she beautiful, but she had a wonderful way of shaking off life's little problems, like water off a duck's back. Nothing seemed to upset her.

I can come up to town, Belinda. It's not as if I'm going to darkest Africa.

Oh, you're missing so much, Alice," Emily said. "Books are wonderful. You can get transported away by a good story. If we're living in a place like this, we can read about Paris or a tropical island and feel like we're there.

The next stop is mine. You'd better follow." "The stop belongs to the railway, but I know what you mean.

few times like a Mini in The Italian Job

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'

Electra droned

Veintisiete años con más mundo que el que descubrió Colón, color sonrosado, ojos de más preguntas y respuestas que el catecismo, nariz de escribano por lo picaresca, labios retozones, y una tabla de pecho como para asirse de ella un náufrago, tal era en compendio la muchacha.

Hay que vivir. Hay que dar el paso que hay que dar porque no hay dónde esconderse.

Roy: It's a winding road with no guardrails and some deeply stupid cul-de-sacs, but it's still technically a path.

Guy Molony, who ran away from New Orleans at sixteen to fight in the Boer War. It was the era of romantic soldiering, when boys heeded the call of Rudyard Kipling ("Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, / Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst," he wrote in "Mandalay").

After exploring the Life-Rock for a day ("If you've seen one rock, you've seen them all"—Oud), his narrative ends two days into the return journey back to Tharsis.

You'll find your way.

Disruption requires an irrational thought: "Why don't we stop what we are doing now, what we have done well, and what has been profitable to us and useful to our customers, and do this new, untested thing that has a good chance of failing?

It is as if we are trapped in a never-ending game, our lives hinging on the roll of a dice or the turn of a card.

Krasus raced along the landscape. all sense of dignity forgotten. Dignity was for those with both time and patience, commodities not available to him and his companion.

Oregon was discovered when someone followed the Oregon Trail right out to the end.

you would do well to turn from Chapter XXXVI to Chapter CXXXIII without further delay, thus saving nearly a hundred chapters without anybody's knowing the difference if you keep quiet. After all, Ahab isn't the only one entitled to be a skipper.