Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kandyse McClure

I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.

Paul Kagame

The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives.

Maggie Stiefvater

My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

Hans Zimmer

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

Gore Verbinski

I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The supreme adventure is being BORN

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

John Buchan

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.

M. Scott Peck

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

Maxwell Maltz

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

Maya Angelou

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.

Ashley Young

The fast lane I am flying down is one with no end in sight filled with reckless adventure and paved with dangerous delights.

Henry David Thoreau

The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet

Kathleen Hanna

I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live.

Jon Heder

It was just the adventure of creating this thing that we had hopes and dreams about. When we made 'Napoleon,' it was just that feeling of what was going to happen.

Glen Mazzara

I lot of the show's I do are low tech. This is low tech. There's a bit of high adventure here. There's difficult emotional choices. So actually this feels like a natural progression of everything I've been doing before this.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

Billie Piper

Rose has had adventures and she's a lot more confident as a companion. She's on a par with the Doctor, more so than last year. She's seen some incredible things, terrifying things. This time she's more experienced as a woman, as a companion; she does everything with more conviction. There's stuff that she understands a bit more, so it's a natural progression.

Paul Auster

Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.

Laurence J. Peter

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

Muhammad Iqbal

The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.

Margrethe II of Denmark

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

Maria Bello

I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.

Ned Rorem

To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.

Neil Armstrong

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Priscilla Presley

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.