“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
“Adventure is a need.”
“What’s the adventure if you’re sure of the outcome?”
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming Wow! What a Ride!”
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. I don t much care where – Then it doesn t matter which way you go.”
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I ll go to it laughing.”
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being false, untrue, yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”
“Fifteen men on the Dead Man s Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
“Adventure, yeah. I guess that s what you call it when everybody comes back alive.”
“Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, Let s go do that together.”
“Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”