Quotes about advent
adventure hard-work ideas
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing. Thomas A. Edison
adventure writing world
I thought I was a pretty good writer, but I didn't have anything to write about. I wanted to go out in the world, have some adventures and then write about them. Shane Smith
adventure trying mediocre
All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future. Tony Robbins
adventure thinking married
Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that? L. Ron Hubbard
adventure long missing
The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes. Terry Pratchett
adventure names stories
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few. Terry Brooks
adventure dark hiding-something
Kenneth Hari does not paint portraits as they are but as he is. I feel he is hiding something from me. To board a train into his mind would give me a ride into dark adventure. Tennessee Williams
adventure kind security
Security is a kind of death. Tennessee Williams
adventure solitude lasts
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her. Simone de Beauvoir
adventure two risk
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248) Simone de Beauvoir
adventure goes-on want
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. Simone de Beauvoir
adventure feet knights
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet. Simone de Beauvoir
adventure stories majority
Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but rather, for the vast majority, the adventure of living in between. Simon Schama
adventure fire half
We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof. And missed Los Angeles by 3,500 miles at the end of the trip and ending up in the arctic in a snowstorm. Richard Branson
adventure people machines
I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off. Richard Branson
adventure long surfing
Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day. Richard Branson
adventure thinking different
I think because I have great difficulty saying the word, 'no,' almost every day's a different adventure. Richard Branson
adventure years challenges
I like to set myself a new adventure challenge at least once or twice a year because I love that side of my life. I love getting fit and training for it. Richard Branson
adventure opportunity ideas
I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue. Richard Branson
adventure littles life-is
Life is not without a little adventure, Adventure is not without a little danger, Success is not without a little failure Tim Reid
adventure years people
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment. Pearl Bailey
adventure people feminist
It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, "Make this a feminist story!" I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons. Philip Pullman
adventure heart thinking
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to him in her head, didn't relive every moment they'd been together, didn't long for his voice and his hands and his love. She had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that had astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most. She thought the tenderness it left in her heart was like a bruise that would never go away, but she would cherish it forever. Philip Pullman
adventure writing parent
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents. Philip Pullman
adventure and-love belief
Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened. Rachel Cohn
adventure self expression
Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization. Rabindranath Tagore
adventure wandering-around world
Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure! Jostein Gaarder
adventure character quirky
SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast of charming, quirky, unsavory, even loathesome characters in a fast-paced, entertaining adventure. Kevin J. Anderson
adventure perfect quiet
The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it can’t possibly be enough. Kevin J. Anderson
adventure land risk
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world. Ramana Maharshi
adventure character knowing
As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing. Radha Mitchell
adventure feelings mountain
I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world. Raha Moharrak
adventure influence companion
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.