Adventure Quotes

1845 Adventure quotes by 1200 unique authors

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother. — Peter De Vries
I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O… — Rabindranath Tagore
I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout… — Berkeley Breathed
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east… — Henry David Thoreau
The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical… — Charles Lindbergh
Everything’s been about the journey, I never really set out with goals for fighting; it’s been about the adventure along the way. When you’re on… — Evan Tanner
Dare to dream, live with passion. Make your life an epic extraordinary adventure! — Nik Halik
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river… — Samuel Johnson
There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education… — Bertrand Russell
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but… — Sigmund Freud
The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it,… — Henry Beston
Art is an adventure that never seems to end. — Jason Calacanis
If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork… — S. J. Perelman
What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely… — Louis L'Amour
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty,… — William McFee
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead
For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing… — Ted Allen
In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym… — Ben Hecht
I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition… — Mark Burnett
Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the… — Bernard Malamud
But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it. — Edna Ferber
Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European… — Claude Levi-Strauss
The last part of life is a spiritual concern. You need to find a context to put your life into, that will allow you to… — James Cromwell

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