Quotes About Adventure

the seven of them rode for two hours into country that seemed to contain nothing except itself.

The sensible way, which he had pursued once or twice in his life, had always proved boring, usually within a few days.

And the blue pigs walked all the way to Montana just to be eaten. Life ain't for sissies, as Augustus might have said.

A chain of follies had put him there: Call's abrupt decision to become a cattleman and his own decision, equally abrupt, to try and rescue a girl foolish enough to be taken in by Jake Spoon. None of it was sensible, yet he had to admit there was something about such follies that he liked.

He had ridden his horse into the saloon on a dare from a whore – his practice was always to accept dares; it spiced life up a little.

Perhaps, he thought, as he turned back, that was what Augustus wanted: just to be free for a few days, just to saddle his horse and ride.

Without risk there was no power, not for a grown man.

Francis Goes to the Army.

Larry McMurtry

None of it was sensible, yet he had to admit there was something about such follies that he liked. The sensible way, which he had pursued once or twice in his life, had always proved boring ... There was much more enterprise in certain follies, it seemed to him.

I'd rather go outlaw than be a doctor or a lawyer.

One little shot during a card game in Arkansas had started things happening—things he couldn't see the end of.

swinging off the bay. "We rode all night

It's been quite a party ain't it?" Lonesome Dove

His habit had been to go and meet whatever needed to be met, not to wait idly for what might approach.

As the day died and the afterglow stretched upward in the soft, empty sky, the Hat Creek outfit, seven strong, crossed the river and rode southeast, toward the Hacienda Flores.

I'm in the mood to travel. Once you boys get settled I may go to China, for all you know.

None of it was sensible, yet he had to admit there was something about such follies that he liked. The sensible way, which he had pursued once or twice in his life, had always proved boring, usually within a few days. In his case it had led to nothing much, just excessive drunkenness and reckless card playing. There was more enterprise in certain follies, it seemed to him.

Well, that's where we started for," he said. "Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.

Maybe, Gus said. We've had a lot of practice, going on expeditions for nothing. That's how it mostly turned out. You ride awhile in one direction and then you turn around and ride back.

This place is a playground for a questing mind.

Gradually he was learning the size, the scale of the Ringworld. It was unpleasant, like all learning processes. He

Louis's excitement was growing unbearable. Was this really what he had needed all along? Not the droud and wire, but the risk of his life to prove its value! Louis adjusted his flying belt and dropped over the railing.

GREAT SKY WOMAN  and SHADOW VALLEY, adventures set 30,000 years