Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland… — William Henry Irwin Copy Share Image
For me, adventures are a vehicle for travelling deep into the fabric of society, coming to know the environmental conditions that shape… — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
I like to say, and I truly believe, that every run brings new experiences. You just don't know what they might be… — Amby Burfoot Copy Share Image
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
I remember going on adventures with my older brother and, when I was 11, being allowed to go to the corner shop… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
“Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“And what exactly are we starting?” I ask. “Don’t play games right now, Melissa. Babe, you know just as good as I… — Harper Sloan Copy Share Image
Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense… — Monica Baldwin Copy Share Image
“My great adventure is really Proust. Well-- what remains to be written after that? I’m only in the first volume, and there… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Believing is a daring adventure into the unseen, it is a radiant faith in the unexplored, the undiscovered, the miracles of the… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
Toad, with no one to check his statements or to criticize in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“Bit it's what bein a hard man is aw aboot; its a journey, a fucking self destructive quest tae find yir limits,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“She would have an adventure. For herself. This one time. She would see her homeland, and smell it and breathe it in.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“He’d spent enough time thinking he was a mistake—as a demigod, on this quest, in life in general. He didn’t need a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It [space] was just so incredibly adventurous and exciting to me. I just thought there was no doubt in my mind that… — Rick Husband Copy Share Image
In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The challenges of adventure, rock climbing and alpinism trained me well for dealing with the slow neurodegenerative malady I'm experiencing. — Jeff Lowe Copy Share Image
The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure. — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
The truth of it is when you get an audience to laugh and camp along with you, it's much easier to scare… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
“The two lads were told to wash their hands. The recent thrill of adventure had been superseded by another sort of excitement.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride,… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
“Looking down at her blood-stained shirt she felt numb. The world seemed to spin and the edges of her vision began to… — Katie Cody Copy Share Image
Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each… — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will, in the end, become… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop,… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image