Quotes about advent
adventure balance world
The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture. Winifred Holtby
adventure men may
Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure". Winston Churchill
adventure blood people
On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia. William Kunstler
adventure doubt goats
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. Virginia Woolf
adventure glasses tree
There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a word? It is a balloon that sails over tree-tops. To speak of knowledge is futile. All is experiment and adventure. We are forever mixing ourselves with unknown quantities. What is to come? I know not. But, as I put down my glass I remember; I am engaged to be married. I am to dine with my friends tonight. I am Bernard.
adventure pride giving
Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness. Wole Soyinka
adventure avant-garde spirit
The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde. Zaha Hadid
adventure pride rocks
We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough. Yvon Chouinard
adventure patagonia overused
The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts
adventure
It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.
adventure superhero action
I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.' Zac Efron
adventure fate choices
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. Vincent Van Gogh
adventure imagination kind
Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery. Walter de La Mare
adventure banking caution
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. Walter Bagehot
adventure wind variables
All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds. William Bligh
adventure elements individual
Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.
adventure humility differences
For many people, life seems to be a kind of brief candle hardly worth living. But for those who are bold, who are venturesome, who have the humility to deal with what is possible rather than what is predictable, life is an exciting and challenging adventure. Life is no brief candle to me. In a world that can work for everyone, especially in which I can make a difference-that is a life worth living! That is living! That is being alive! Werner Erhard
adventure men
I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. Werner Herzog
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.
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 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.
adventure discovery ideas
For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas. Ted Allen
adventure thinking interesting
There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. Randall Munroe
adventure sleep tired
Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure. Ralph Waldo Emerson
adventure understanding want
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.