Quotes About Adventure

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.

Scuba diving is itself a hazardous sport. To do it without any training is tantamount to playing Russian roulette with a loaded revolver.

Experienced cave divers are fond of pointing out to the public that caves do not kill divers, divers do.

This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

We are all adventurers here, I suppose, and wild doings in wild countries appeal to us as nothing else could do. It is good to know that there remain wild corners of this dreadfully civilised world.

Man goes looking for trouble, trouble's got a habit of following the scent right back to him.

At the moment of greatest fear, the best solution is to go boldly and without hesitation.

Have I not walked without an upward lookOf caution under stars that very wellMight not have missed me when they shot and fell?It was a risk I had to take—and took.

I shall set forth for somewhere,I shall make the reckless choiceSome say when they are in voiceAnd tossing so as to scareThe white clouds over them on,I shall have less to say,But I shall be gone.

Do not follow where the path may lead...Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

It wasn't in books. It wasn't in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees; all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore and when Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name…

You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike

Robert Galbraith

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walk in the middle of the street. At two in

He would move from city to city as he had always done, using people, soiling them like sheets and walking away, to find fresh faces and new diversions.

Man, I love the 'Lord of the Rings' movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

then we went skinny dippin' and did things that frighten the fish... Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias.

It is an effort to stop evolution, to hold things back to the plane of your judgment. It is a check on a great adventure of human life. It is negative to the idea that youth should go forward. It is for the coming generation to judge you, not for you to judge it. So it must happen, whether you will it or not.

Third Doctor: A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting