Adventure Quotes
As quoted in Building A Life Of Value : Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us (2005) by Jason A. Merchey, p. 74
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Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.
walt disney— As quoted in The Quotable Walt Disney (2001) edited by Dave Smith
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
j. m. barrie— 1904 Peter Pan
That is how I would have acted before my accident, but now my personal history had become unimportant. It had stopped being history and was once more becoming a legend, a search, an adventure, a journey into and away from myself. I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.
paulo coelho— p. 272 (The Zahir (2005))
If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
alan hirsch— p. 151 (The Faith of Leap (2011))
An ideological movement is a collection of people many of whom could hardly bake a cake, fix a car, sustain a friendship or a marriage, or even do a quadratic equation, yet they believe they know how to rule the world. The university, in which it is possible to combine theoretical pretension with comprehensive ineptitude, has become the natural habitat of the ideological enthusiast. A kind of adventure playground, carefully insulated from reality in order to prevent absent-minded professors from bumping into things as they explore transcendental realms, has become the institutional base for civilizational self-hatred.
kenneth minogue— Kenneth Minogue in National Review, November 18, 1991, cited in: fortnightlyreview.co.uk, 2013/07
[L]ife, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in the strict sense of the word, drama. … [T]he primary, radical meaning of life appears when it is employed in the sense not of biology, but of biography. For the very strong reason that the whole of biology is quite definitely only a chapter in certain biographies, it is what biologists do in the portion of their lives open to biography.
josé ortega y gasset— Chap.IX: The Primitive and the Technical
The turbulent lives of their entrepreneurial ancestors led to grief and angst and adventures, and as Sirhan is fond of observing, an adventure is something horrible that happens to someone else.
charles stross— Chapter 9 (“Survivor”), p. 387
Each coming together of a man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
Marie Stopes— 1918 Married Love, ch.10.
The worship of God is not a rule of safetyit is an adventure of thespirit, a flight after theunattainable.The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.
Alfred North Whitehead— 1925 Science and the ModernWorld.
As no one can adventure nearer the throne of God by virtue of his rank, his wealth, or his talent, so no one is kept farther from that throne by his low condition, or by his poverty of wealth, of learning, or of intellect. The prince and the sage are not more welcome to heaven than the poor and ignorant.
albert barnes— P. 455. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.
ian hacking— Chapter 4, Evidence, p. 36
What we find in our heroes and martyrs is a living witness to the fact that the true life of faith can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if one takes it on bravely and gallantly, as something of a grand adventure in which we set out into an unknown country to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
alan hirsch— p. 29 (The Faith of Leap (2011))
It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.
fred hoyle— Frontiers of Astronomy (1955), p. 1
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
edwin hubble— Hubble, Edwin (May 1929). "The Exploration of Space". Harper's Magazine 158: 732.
A new adventure is coming up and I'm sure it will be a good one.
sigurd olson— Last written words
America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,—a land of romance, adventure, and gold.
francis parkman— Pt. I, Ch. 3
Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
lloyd alexander— Chapter 8 (Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965))
“When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.” “If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are,” Annlaw agreed. “Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.”
lloyd alexander— Chapter 21 (Book IV: Taran Wanderer (1967))
Perhaps you will not only have some appreciation of this culture ; it is even possible that you may want to join in the greatest adventure that the human mind has ever begun.
richard feynman— volume III, "Feynman's Epilogue", p. 21-19 (closing sentence)
If you're looking for adventure of a new and different kind, And you come across a Girl Scout who is similarly inclined, Don't be nervous, don't be flustered, don't be scared. Be prepared!
tom lehrer— "Be Prepared"
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
Alfred North Whitehead— Pt. I, ch. 1, sec. 3
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
Alfred North Whitehead— p.353 (Adventures of Ideas (1933))
It is not quite a political bad dream, or metaphysical adventure, or cosmic comedy in the form of a spy story, but it has something of all these. Anyway, it is unique, and also, what is not all that much easier to bring about, magnetically readable … James Bond and Gabriel Syme differ in innumerable ways, but they share a quality of romance , of color and chivalry, almost of myth , that attracts me a lot more deeply than anything about the down-to-earth and up-to-the-minute heroes of writers like Len Deighton and John Le Carré.
— Kingsley Amis, discussing The Man Who Was Thursday in The New York Times (13 October 1968), as quoted in Defiant Joy : The Remarkable Life & Impact of G.K. Chesterton (2011) by Kevin Belmonte, p. 137 - 138
Dark eyes adventure bring; the blue serene Do promise Paradise: and yours are green.
— Hilaire Belloc, "On Eyes", epigram in essay "On 'And'" in On (1923), London, Methuen, p. 181. Also in Collected Verse (1958).
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Francis Bacon— Francis Bacon, Essay XLII, Of Youth and Age.
I wrote my first story when I was fifteen, and sent it—to adventure, I believe. Three years later I managed to break into Weird Tales. Three years of writing without selling a blasted line. (I never have been able to sell to adventure; guess my first attempt cooked me with them for ever!)
robert e. howard— From a letter to H. P. Lovecraft (c. July 1933)
