Adventure Quotes - page 2

A general definition of civilization a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace. (Alfred North Whitehead)

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Joseph Campbell

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.

Michael Chabon

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Amelia Earhart

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

Lloyd Alexander

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Taylor Caldwell

A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind.

Eugène Ionesco

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

André Gide

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

Harrison Ford

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

Arthur Henderson

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do. (Glenn Close)

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

Graham Brown

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.

Esther Perel

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

Kevin Mitnick

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

Louis L'Amour

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

Ann Beattie

I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.

Catherine Bell

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Frederick Sanger

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.

Jacqueline Cochran

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Lady Randolph Churchill

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it. (Juliette Binoche)

America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold.

Francis Parkman

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

Gary Gygax

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

[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

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