Adventure Quotes - page 3

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home." And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure. (Thornton Wilder)
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. View quote
Washington Irving
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
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. View quote
Fred Hoyle
Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested. View quote
Michelle Rodriguez
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. View quote
Ian Hacking
Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. (E. M. Forster)
It's an adventure story. But it's definitely not in our world. View quote
Jim Henson
It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure. View quote
Alice Walker
A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure. View quote
Elbridge Gerry
Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death. View quote
André Maurois
I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Your life is your story and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential. View quote
Kerry Washington
If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail. View quote
Henry A. Wallace
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way. View quote
Dean Koontz
We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us - the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world. View quote
Joseph Campbell
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. View quote
Walter Lippmann
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. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton