Quotes About Adventure

Don't think about it, Holly told herself. Don't think about the white-hot magma flow that's going to engulf this tiny craft. Don't think about hurtling toward the surface with a MACH 2 force trying to turn you inside out. And certainly don't think about the blood-crazed troll ready to disembowel you with his tusks. Nope. Don't think about any of that stuff.…Too late.

Es konnte nie schaden zu wissen, wo sich das ortsansässige Getier so rumtrieb.

Holly moved. A second too late. The table clipped her backpack, knocking the gas tank clean off. It spun through the air, trailing flammable liquid. Italian restaurants—wouldn't you know it—full of candles. The tank twirled right through an elaborate candelabrum and burst into flames like some deadly firework.

Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty

And then I'm gonna step right into the wilderness. Just live on berries and shit. Not bother anybody. Not hurt anything. Something I have to do, man.

YOLO—you only live once.

Má»™t cuá»™c s?ng gi?n d? ngày nay là cuá»™c phiêu lÆ°u d? th??ng nh?t.

Mustering this sad, mutinous little force, I drove them before me up the Linar gorge, cursing the lot of them. It was not difficult for me to work up a rage at this moment. All of a sudden I felt that revulsion against an alien way of life that anyone who travels in remote places experiences from time to time. I longed for clean clothes; the company of people who meant what they said, and did it. I longed for a hot bath and a drink.

In the great court, surrounded by broken-down droshkies and the skeletons of German motor-buses, we spread our sleeping-bags on the oily ground beside our vehicle. For the first time since leaving Istanbul we had achieved Hugh's ambition to sleep 'under the stars'.

You never know what's coming for you.

A poor grasp of dead reckoning may have led Christopher Columbus to North America instead of India, a navigational error of about eight thousand miles.

The Snark eventually ran out of fuel and crashed somewhere in the Amazonian rain forests of Brazil.

1978 Jurgen Honscheid came over from West Germany for the first Hawaiian World Cup and discovered jumping, which was new to him, although Mike Horgan and I were jumping in 1974 and 1975. There was a new enthusiasm for jumping and we were all trying to outdo each other by jumping higher and higher. The problem was that ... the riders flew off in mid-air because there was no way to keep the board with you-and

Then I remembered the Chip, a small experimental board we had built with footstraps, and thought it's dumb not to use this for jumping. That's when I first started jumping with footstraps and discovering controlled flight. I could go so much faster

into the air, but you could land the thing, and not only that, but you could change direction in the air! The whole sport of high-performance

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it...

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

If you don't risk anything, you risk more

Did I want to dance? Of course I did and that's not all.

and the trouble is, if you risk nothing, you risk even more...

if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Y el problema es que si no arriesgas nada, arriesgas aún más.

Troubles are the price of adventure.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.