Adventure Quotes · Page 59

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

— Paulo Coelho

Sex after 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. Even putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

— George Burns

“Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't soar free.”

— C.J. Milbrandt

“Isn’t it funny the way some combinations of words can give you – apart from their meaning – a thrill like music?”

— C.S. Lewis

“Encounters with death and danger are only adventures to the survivors.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid…

— Ella Maillart

When you're on the wrong side of 50 there are few opportunities for adventure. So you grab them while you can.

— Carol Thatcher

“Your reckless streak will be your best friend or your worst enemy.”

— Nancy Mangano

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling…

— Jack London

Professors and students claim to be on a quest for truth while denying that it exists or that anyone could identify it…

— Dave Hunt

“I'm always homesick for the journey,” I had once written in ink speckled script, adding almost as an afterthought, “...no matter what…

— S.C. Barrus

For the first time in long time, I can say I love what I do. I can't say that every day is…

— Lauren Gibbs

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to…

— Anthony Bourdain

The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

“There the black horse stood - his feet planted firm on the ground, afraid to move. His coat was covered in sweat…

— Brittney Joy

“Because of the times, and because the child has been living in a world filled with every kind of thrill and adventure,…

— Judith C. Waller

Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and…

— Elinor Gadon

“A thrilling sense of having been chosen for something is the best and the only certain thing in one whose glance surveys…

— Robert Musil

I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and…

— Michael Bloomberg

“I remember asking him, 'Why did you print that stuff out, why not use thumb drives like everyone else,' and he said,…

— Neal Stephenson

“I had never seen the view at this time before, at the very pinnacle of night when sunset was far behind us…

— Rosie Pugh

But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Every success starts with a dream. You have to know what you want before you go on a quest for success No…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“ I was on one of my world 'walkabouts.' It had taken me once more through Hong Kong, to Japan, Australia, and…

— Timothy James Dean

“More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.   -Francois”

— Loretta Lost

It'd be the thrill of anyone's bull riding career to ride Red Rock. Like when Freckles Brown rode Tornado.

— Lane Frost

In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.

— Eoin Colfer

True courage and adventure is found in exploring the meaning of life and discovering the reason for your existence.

— Senora Roy

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“You ought to dare impossible things. These will be possible by ceaseless reliance on a higher power.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

— Camille Paglia

People who are on a spiritual quest don't think, they simply want results.

— Paulo Coelho

'Quest' is a romantic name for journey, and I think 'fire' is a word that has stimulating connotations for all of us.

— Everett McGill

[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

“No ghosts need apply. - Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire ”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.

— Alan Hirsch

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

— Tahir Shah

Motherhood is quite challenging. Everyday is a whole new adventure with your child.

— Lara Dutta

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

I've actually done a lot of on-screen, live-action stuff prior to 'Adventure Time.'

— Jeremy Shada