Quotes About Adventure

And we rode forward into the night, past the sleeping houses of our countrymen.

Do all the other things, the ambitious things — travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes, swim naked in wild jungle rivers (after first having it tested for monkey poop) – but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.

In those girls I found my Rome, my Paris, my Constantinople.

If you don't have a challenge, find one

The jump did not go as planned. My father gashed his head and tore his parachute on the tail of the plane. He hit the water hard and submerged. When he surfaced, his head was bleeding, he was vomiting from swallowing seawater, and he had been stung by a Portuguese man-of-war.

Deneyin bizi al?p götürdüÄŸü yere götürmesini istedim.

As soon as you close your eyes, the adventure of sleep begins. -from A Man Asleep

GerçeÄŸini arayan yaz? serüvenini sat?r aralar?nda belli eden ÅŸu nafile aray???n izidir kitap: kurallar? son derece basit ama oynan??? fena halde umutsuzca karma??k bir oyun.

I'm at sea, lieutenant … We probably both are. Except that you, you fight the waves, you mean to go in a definite direction, whereas I let myself drift with the current, clutching here and there on a passing branch.

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

What brings you here, Kit? No wish to offend you, but not quite the thing, you know!' Her lip trembled. She replied with a catch in her voice: 'I am running away!' 'Oh, running away!' said Mr Standen, satisfied.

Charles' driving, skilful though it might be, kept his passengers in a constant state of breathlessness.

I didn't smuggle the dog into the country; I merely caused him to be smuggled out of Baluchistan.

I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons, but you may depend upon it none of those knight-errants would be able to rescue one from a social fix, and you must own, Meg, that one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

I may have said that I wanted to have an adventure, replied Miss Thane. But I never said that I wanted to be murdered in my bed.

If I must consort with rogues [...] I own I like them to be in the grand manner.

Simplicity was abhorrent to his lordship; he revelled in a net-work of intrigue; he loved to accomplish the impossible.

He did not want middle-aged men with distinguished records with him: they could be better employed elsewhere, and would, moreover, have bored him. He wanted polished young men of good families, who were of his own world, who knew how to make themselves pleasant in exalted circles, and could amuse his leisure moments with their adventures, and their fun, and their bubbling energy.

Which was the best I could do, sir, seeing as the motorboat was no use and I'd got to get across the creek somehow. I won't repeat what that Peabody said, because it doesn't bear repeating, but... I said, interrupted a voice with relish, I said I 'adn't been 'ired to row an 'ippo across the creek, and no more I 'ad.

You've never been in a scrape yet but what it came about by accident. The thing is, no one else has these accidents.

Martin,' interrupted Gervase, 'why were you stunned, kept in durance vile, and finally rolled into a sand-pit?

I don't care! I'd rather walk all the way to London than stay here now!' 'It's an engaging thought,' said Stephen. 'Orphan of the Storm.

drive him to Great Russell Street.

Lady Barbara drove herself in a phaeton, with a tiger perched up behind;