Quotes About Adventure

You remind me of my uncle Huan. No one could ever pin him down. He liked to gamble, too, and he'd much rather have fun than work. He died pulling children out of a burning house. He wouldn't stop going back as long as there was one left inside. Are you like him, Mat? Will you be there when the flames are high?

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It is why he got the hell out of his hometown, Waynesboro, two days ago.

Bu da baÅŸka bir denemedir.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

It's not the smart that get ahead, but the bold.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach.

the only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. —MARK TWAIN

Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.

There's gotta be a way out of this dungeon.- G. Gygax

To travel is better than to arrive.

Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.

To arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context,as pretty scenery. But to arrive after days of hard travel across the prairies would be to see them in another way, as a goal, a promised land.

Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere.

You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV.

But until then, and right now, the sun is bright, the air is cool, my head is clear, there's a whole day ahead of us, we're almost to the mountains, it's a good day to be alive. It's this thinner air that does it. You always feel like this when you start getting into higher altitudes.

I am a pioneer now, looking onto a promised land.

Yolculuk etmek bazen, varmaktan daha iyidir.

And from time to time you find your "county road" takes you onto a two-rutter and then a single rutter and then into a pasture and stops, or else it takes you into some farmer's backyard.

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.

So we navigate mostly by dead reckoning, and deduction from what clues we find. I keep a compass in one pocket for overcast days when the sun doesn't show directions and have the map mounted in a special carrier on top of the gas tank where I can keep track of miles from the last junction and know what to look for. With those tools and a lack of pressure to 'get somewhere' it works out fine and we just about have America all to ourselves.

Cromwell's statement, "No one ever travels so high as he who knows not where he is going