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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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
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))
[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
My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.
edward bulwer-lytton— Chapter 1. This is the origin of the phrase "pursuit of the almighty dollar". Washington Irving coined the expression almighty dollar itself.
I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
Edgar Rice Burroughs— Chapter 5 (A Princess of Mars (1917))
Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
alan hirsch— p. 110 (The Faith of Leap (2011))
The work of an enthusiast who has watched and enjoyed cricket with an eye for detail and for character, for adventure and the human reflection beyond the ropes. It will, I fancy, be read with the same pleasure as it was written.
margaret hughes— John Arlott, review of All On A Summer's Day; quoted in Times obituary
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.
washington irving— "The Broken Heart".
Having settled down in the promised land of money and adventure - returning to a land of your parents last days can be a big dilemma to many. Isn't your greatest wealth your parents, and the best adventure - to see them happy before they go.
siddharth katragadda— The Other Wife(2003) by Siddharth Katragadda page 90
Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.
norman vincent peale— The New Art of Living (1986), p. 13
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Norman Rockwell— As quoted in A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography? (1978) by Donald Walton, p. 251
...when I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished – for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.
k. barry sharpless— Nobel lecture, 2001
I once played the chief part in a rather exciting business without ever once budging from London . And the joke of it was that the man who went out to look for adventure only saw a bit of the game, and I who sat in my chambers saw it all and pulled the strings. 'They also serve who only stand and wait,' you know.
john buchan— Preface (The Power-House (1916))
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
john buchan— Pilgrim’s Way (1940)
Life is security and daring,/ Life is protection and risk,/ Life is openness and closure,/ It is safety and adventure.
kuruvilla pandikattu— Life: Relish It!
I have already related to you great and admirable things; but, if you might be induced to adventure upon the hazard of believing some other divinity of this sacred Pantagruelion, I very willingly would tell it you. Believe it, if you will, or otherwise, believe it not, I care not which of them you do, they are both alike to me. It shall be sufficient for my purpose to have told you the truth, and the truth I will tell you.
françois rabelais— Chapter 52 : How a certain kind of Pantagruelion is of that nature that the fire is not able to consume it
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
— Edwin Hubble, "The Exploration of Space", Harper's Magazine, Volume 158 (May 1929), p. 732.
So long as we were in a room in a brothel , we belonged to our fantasies, but once having exposed them, we're now tied up with human beings, tied to you and forced to go on with this adventure according to the laws of visibility. Jean Genet The Balcony (1956)
— Ben Hecht, quoted in: John Robert Colombo (1979) Colombo's Hollywood: wit and wisdom of the moviemakers, p. 150
Naples is the flower of paradise. The last adventure of my life.
Alexandre Dumas— As quoted in "Naples and Paris, the true capitals" by Marco Cesario (24 October 2007)
"Every once in a while, my mind would catch, however faintly, strains of music from long, long ago, when my elder brother, fresh from what seemed to me then a wonderful adventure in a world far from home, used to sing that sweet song with words I can still remember "Silliman Beside the Sea."
— Sen. Jovito Salonga, "The Educated Man", The Jovito R. Salonga Journal, Retrieved 2010-02-13.
Let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
J. K. Rowling— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, said by Albus Dumbledore (2005).
And the adventure continues.
— Who: Wonder Woman
— Source: Justice League Unlimited (2004-2006)
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