Adventurers Quotes
45 Adventurers quotes by 43 unique authors
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My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the…
— Michael Moritz
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As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.
— Paul Allen
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.
— William Least Heat-Moon
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Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.
— Thomas Gray
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A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the…
— Sarah Orne Jewett
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All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense;…
— Arthur Bryant
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It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some…
— John Updike
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There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices,…
— Cornelia Funke
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But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against…
— Jack London
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You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're…
— Alexandra Ripley
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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top…
— Brian Selznick
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Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along…
— Robin Wasserman
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Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit.
— Tom Cochrane
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There are no words to describe the moments of life that go beyond your current experience. Sometimes you just have to pause at the limits…
— Unknown Author
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On my adventurers into the porn world, I noticed there's one thing that doesn't exist. Asian men.
— Daniel Ellis
Who Wrote These Adventurers Quotes
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