Best 3492 quotes in «adventure quotes» category

His hair had clearly been up all night having adventures without him.

His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with maximum of privation. If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this bepatched youth.

History is always older. —Black Fez axiom

His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation.

His hand snapped shut over the device and then he crossed his arms. Aria stared in horror. Her Smarteye was buried in a Neanderthal’s armpit.

History is all around us and you, my lucky few, are living in some of it..

His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw benieath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg.

His whisper continued to stream a silent cacophony of warnings, kill and damage reports and pleas for assistance. He allowed himself two seconds to watch it and came away with the sense they were losing. Not lost and not soon, but losing.

Home is where you go to find solace from the ever changing chaos, to find love within the confines of a heartless world, and to be reminded that no matter how far you wander, there will always be something waiting when you return.

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

Hope is a delicate thing. A dangerous thing.

His vision blurred, his grip on the dash faltered and the cockpit lost definition. Then all the diati rushed back to him in its own shockwave. The physical force slammed him against the cockpit half-wall. He gasped air into his lungs as a crimson aura throbbed above his skin. The world spun around him, and it occurred to him if he wanted to he could control it—not the spinning, but the world.

Horizons, cheap whisky straight from the bottle and your hands in mine.

- “How about flipping a coin;” she made a pretty remark and the two women turned around and looked at her irritated. - “That's right, go ahead, jock about it. You are not the one trying to change her heart, I am, and you know damn well how painful that can be!” Sand of Passion

How are things with you, sir?" "Fine." He says it flat."Coffee black. BLT." Now my heart tells me this guy needs more in life, so I take a short. "You ever had a cheese burger with grilled onions and mushrooms on pumpernickel, sir?" That takes a minute to sink in. Then he slaps the counter, grinning. "Bring it on." I sense he needs more. "You want a malt with that, by any chance?" He did, of course. "Chocolate," he says, beaming like a kid. Now he's loosening up. It's a privilege to touch humanity in such a fashion.

How beautiful to be fully alive in the moment?

How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him?

How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?

How can you call what I have—what I did—a gift?” “There’s a reason for your power. You’ll never fully control your magic until you embrace it.” Cold fear gripped her stomach. "I know you're scared. But I trust you.

How could we have achieved the set-goal, without endurance to the end?

How do you know I’m any different from the broken, beaten slave you found over seven years ago? - Corin

How do some people spend their beings having no adventures? It feels to me they’re wasting their lives.

However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist.

How unlucky she was--born with adventurous hooves that were stuck inside a pen. But she wasn't giving up. If there was a way out, Flora said to herself, she would find it.

History belongs to the dead... Discovery belongs to the Living. (Professor Alistair Dawkins)

His punch knocked her back a meter into the wall. His fist had moved of his own volition, carrying a rage and frustration all its own. To his dismay, she didn’t fall. People so small as her always fell. No tears pooled in her eyes; instead they flared golden amber as she rubbed her jaw and pushed off the wall to stand rigid straight. A peculiar smile danced across her lips as blood trickled from the corner of her mouth and down her chin.

I admit you’ve all proved me wrong, thus far. But remember, at the time we were barely two centuries away from the SAI Rebellion, and the bloodbath we fled still burned bitterly in our souls. “The Anadens? They were not a peaceful people. Oh, they loved to climb up on their pillars and proclaim their evolutionary superiority. But when you got down to it, they took what they wanted, by force if necessary. They crushed dissent when it became inconvenient, as we learned the hard way. They were bullies and tyrants, and they were us.

I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.

I am a Freedom Seeker, willing and able to choose my own path.

I always win.

I always thought falling in love was hard, but now I realize that was the easy bit. It’s staying in love that‘s the hard part.

I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried.

I dare travel on a destiny defined path.

I'd developed an apology-is-much-better-than-asking-for-permission mentality.

Hurry up, Hodgeyboy! You run like a fat badger after Sunday tea." Mibbitwiss

I am a daughter of adventure. That means I never experience a dull moment and must be prepared for any eventuality.

I am a Freedom Seeker, committed to experiencing my life as my true self.

I am a Freedom Seeker and I choose to feel free.

I am a daughter of adventure. This means I never experience a dull moment and must be prepared for any eventuality.

I am a spinner of yarns; hopefully to transport the reader or listener to places I see in my minds eye.

I am an explorer,' she whispered, 'setting courageously off into the wild unknown.' It was not a daydream she'd ever had before, but she felt the familiar comfort of her imagination wrapping around her. She was an archeologist, a scientist, a treasure hunter. She was a master of land and sea. 'My life is an adventure.' she said, growing confident as she opened her eyes again. 'I will not be shackled to this satellite anymore.' Thorne tilted his head to one side. He waited for three heartbeats before sliding one hand down into hers. 'I have no idea what you're talking about,' he said. 'But we'll go with it.

I am an Ultimate,” she vowed, the walls of her heart quaking with ferocity and determination. “And I have the power to do the impossible.

I am a woman who’s passionate about life. Perhaps too full of passion for the majority of the world to understand. I lust for adventure and stories; I feel everything. I’m a lover and a fighter. I fight for what I love and I love what I fight for. I yearn for what is more than life, and I live beyond that yearning.

I am giving my all in all to the sacred moments.

I am grateful for every adversity. I learn to be adventurous.

I am living in paradise.

I am of course lost in this journey I'm on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. so call me a fool, but I'm happy to be lost.

I am obsessed with making every moment of my life full of value and substance. I’m constantly fighting for miracle and adventure, and everyone around me tells me to just enjoy life and stop fighting. Then I realized—I AM the adventure, and I AM the miracle. I’m fighting for myself, and I will NEVER give up fighting for who I am. If the greatest adventure is life, and the purest miracle is this very moment, then what the hell am I even waiting for?

I am the best author of my life.

I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.