Quotes About Adventure

If I don't report on time, the biometrics wired into my central nervous system will explode, and that'll be it for me, you, and this lovely piece of functional archaeology.

Since we do float on an unknown sea, I think we should examine the other floating things that come our way carefully; who knows what may depend on it?

What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

what the Man-Moth fears most he must do..

Remember, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Don't be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

No seas muy tímido ni quisquilloso sobre tus acciones. Toda la vida es un experimento. Mientras más experimentos hagas, mejor".

To seek pleasure makes a hero of anyone: you open yourself so entirely to fate.

Right now I would welcome the most wicked baron who ever lived if he could save me from my aunt and her plans," Minerva declared.

wilderness—wild and brutal and glorious—

No. I want to get out—outside. Out of this flat." "There's a full moon. Have you ever walked beside the Seine in the moonlight?" "No. Have you?" "Not with you. Let's go.

Better the robes of a magnate and the hauberk of a warrior than to grow stale for want of challenges.

Being lost is the way, how else can you be found?

The army which only eleven years before had brought an ignominious end to the war against the Boers was disastrously under-manned, and called for volunteers. Young men flocked to the colours in droves, as they always had, fired with the spirit of adventure and mistaking it for patriotism.

For Mary there would be no looking back when they set sail from India. Out there beyond the sea lay a whole lifetime of discovery for a girl who had once believed the world no more than a washtub and twenty pairs of cotton drawers a day.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

I grew up in a Navy family.

Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

Would that we could soar forever beyond the reach of earth, away from the dangers that await us the moment we alight.

If you ask me, it's all that schooling. It takes the fun out of life, being cooped up like that day after day...Books, now that's different. There's nothing like a book to keep you company of a long voyage.

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

And then the captains of merchant ships can take their wives to sea with them if they wish, and in the Navy they're not allowed to." "I shouldn't want to take my wife to sea with me," said William. "A wife would be fearfully in the way." Marianne gritted her teeth. Oh, to be a man, and not to be dependent upon the whim of a man to live!

But she learned in two hours what most girls of her age would only have learned in two weeks, for she was without fear, and after each tumble she was up again, dizzy and bruised yet laughing, and back in the saddle almost before Sir Benjamin had time to draw rein.