Adventure Quotes - Page 10

His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation.

Never confuse lust for anything other than what it is. There isn't a man alive that wouldn't gladly take what you are so willing to offer.""Any but you, apparently." -Eric to Camile, Pawn of Innocence

Life is a daring curiosity.

He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of foam turned into miniature rainbows as they caught the light of the evening sun setting behind the clouds.

The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:It longed for the adventure of Ignorance

Feeling free is a choice that is ours for the making, ours for the taking at any time, at any age. 

We must have within ourselves some consciousness of this impelling power that may lead us to travel deliberately through our ages, realizing that the most wonderful adventures are not those which we go forth to seek.

God prepared us for the task ahead of time.

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

You ought to enjoy the rhythm of the sacred ride.

The kipper was in a race for it's life, and it knew it. It used all the skill its Maker had given it and drew the creature far away from the craft, to be sacrifice in the end. It was a fitting task for the kipper. But...there is a thing about monsters. They remember.

This isn't my last brush with catastrophe while making Destination Truth. Rather, it's merely the opening act in a cabaret of close calls, all in the name of exploration. I'm not saying that making D.T. is dangerous; it's not, per se. It's just that when you go out of your way to find adventure, sometimes adventure bites you on the ass. The key is figuring out how to walk away in one piece.

But look after yourself - there will be great dangers on the way. Remember, the right road is never the easy road.

If the Christian life seems boring,I suggest you may be DOING IT WRONG!

People gravitated here for the open air, the prolific intoxicants and the visual treats. They made the deals here that were later played out elsewhere. They drank and got high. Sometimes they fought, not for money but for sport or grudge.They were the desperate and the daring, the lost and the searching. Tonight, they were his audience. Tomorrow, they would be his front line.

. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along, and with it, a whole lot of prose.

The highway behind gives me courage to move into the future. I desire to see the first light of tomorrow.

You haven't lived life to the fullest until you've found something worth dying for

I want to be humbled. I want to meet people more messed up than I am. I want to get lost and come out the other end having no idea who I am.

... you know my belief in bald-headed Fortune, with the one solitary hair. Well, I meant to grab that hair...

There was still a bit of sunshine in the sky, not that it mattered. High treetops and reaching branches entombed us from above in a dark coffin. It was still in the afternoon. We had time to gather things together for camp, but the choked rays that permeated the living casket were sputtering their last bits of life. — Tyrus Savage narration from ORRLETH, Volume One of the Orrleth Young Adult Fantasy Paranormal Series

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.

It was definitely a new way of life for people who had become so used to being entertained by televisions, computers and technology." -from Day After Disaster

Adversity is an adventure.

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

I look up to the sky and scream to the wind, 'Give me adventure.' She whispers back, 'You are braver than you know.

The feeling of freedom is as precious as a fortune waiting to be told.

Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.

I picked up one and then a second and then a third of these stones, finding them at about the rate of one stone to the acre. And here is where my adventure became magical, for in a striking foreshortening of time that embraced thousands of years, I had become the witness of this miserly rain from the stars. the marvel of marvels was that there on the rounded back of the planet, between this magnetic sheet and those stars, a human consciousness was present in which as in a mirror that rain could be reflected.

Remember... It's a jungle out there!

He seemed like he was baiting me to ask, like he wanted me to know his troubles but wanted me to ask first.

Something in this meadow and places like it, humble and hidden, offers respite and moments of calm for the wild, adventurous soul that plagues the boys of the world, the wanderer's soul that gnaws and aches inside of them even unto gray manhood. It is the plague of horizons, the plague of the next river bend, the plague that drives men over the vast oceans into strange lands beyond the edges of the maps.

Dreading dusk, fearing night, praying for dawn.

A life filled with challenge will never be boring.

Success is a continuous adventure.

To will and to do are by grace.

We choose to embrace a quest, and we choose to live for adventure.

It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun.

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby, but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage.

I never want to be a passive observer of life's possibilities.

I don't want adventure.""I think you do. I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

Deep in the recesses of her mind, she knew they were probably watching. They watched everything, after all.Let them watch. Let them see what it meant to be human. To live.Let them see what it meant to love, and be loved in return.

The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)

Yeah, but what we need are some fighters who know how to take down a wolf. I know three.""If you are going to get the Pigs, you'll need backup. They're not to be trifled with.

Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been

You are the greatest undiscovered adventure of your lifetime.

They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.

What drives your passion?

People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists.

Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.

Adventures call a valiant few, happenstance upon calls many.

Let Life race you out beyond your own boundaries over and over again until you are comfortable with watching the Map of Normal's edge disappear behind you.Let Life show you that it is safe to exceed your own expectations and reputation--and prove that the only danger in following her into the wilderness is a loss of your own fear.This is when we gain the warrior's heart, the master's eye, and the student's mind. After that, Life holds our hand in every adventure and shows us things not possible before.

Bravery is not the absence of fear, but rather, it is the decision to look fear in the eyes and press on regardless

Let's end by pointing out all the positive ways you can scare yourself and feel alive. You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things. Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.

The roadmap to a rich, rewarding life is to follow your passion, to be willing to deviate, to never dull to the dawn of a new day and all of the possibilities it holds for adventure and discovery.