A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.”
“Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.”
Source: This Is How You Lose the Time War
“Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.”
“Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view.”
“Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.”
Source: Seduction of a Proper Gentleman
“Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.”
Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“Adventure, without it, why live?”
“Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.”
Source: Spirits White as Lightning
“Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.”
“Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted,
I shun all signs of anchorage, because
The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.”
Source: Complete Poems
“Adventure-travel is any activity used as a conduit to observe, share, enjoy, suffer, encounter, or experience that which is outside the boundaries of one's own day-to-day life. You don't have to go to Thailand or Central America to be an adventurer-traveler, but you can. And it's probably better not to have a specific goal, but there are no requirements about that, either. 'Boundaries' is the operative word here; real, implied, or imagined, if your body or mind crosses a boundary, you are doing it.”
“Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.”
Source: Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story
“Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.”
Source: Caro on Gambling
“Adventures are a way to learn and have fun, ideal for the ignorant less than seven year old child who needs to gain understanding via play and unseriousness. The arrogant child needs conviction borne of out of an understanding of life - the wise are seldom arrogant and blabbermouths. Bombarding the arrogant seven to fourteen year old child with things to think about works wonders - advice, good books, guidiance, a vision. The young adult needs purpose and skills. It's time to see things take form. By fourteen a child should understand the many ways things are created such as how sex creates babies, how money is made and how houses are designed and built. Verily, it takes more than love to parent a child.”
“Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”
Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust #4
“Adventures are funny things.
Many are merely happy accidents—a single spark that ignites an unexpected chain of events.
But some adventures are meant for you and you alone.
And whether you want them or not, they seek you out of a great crowd and take you somewhere you never thought you’d go.
Often, these unlooked for adventures require a sacrifice too great to imagine.”
Source: The Final Storm
“Adventures are important things in our life, to forget about our aging.”
“Adventures are never fun while you're having them.”
“Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.”
Source: The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition
“Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.”
Source: The Silver Door
“Adventures are to the adventurous.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
“Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.”
“Adventures call a valiant few, happenstance calls many.”
“Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.”
Source: Four Weird Tales
“Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
Source: A Passage to India
“Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.”
“Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition.”
“Adventures make one late for supper.”
“Adventures of Lailah Gifty Akita, the wonder woman!”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Adventures suck when you're having them.”
Source: Far and Away: A Prize Every Time
“Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.”
“Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Adverbs and cops always come in pairs.”
“Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.”
“Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.”
“Adversarial power relationships only work if you never have to see or work with the bastards again.”
“Adverse radiation exposures are cumulative and the longer you receive them, the more likely it is to make you sick.”
“Adversities are opportunities for a daring life.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.”
“Adversities define what you're made of. Success is you're reward for overcoming them”
Source: Wake Up The Winner In You: Your Time Is Now
“Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.”
“Adversities test whether we really can live for our dreams.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.”
Source: Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
“Adversity and challenges are life’s way of creating strength. Adversity creates challenge, and challenge creates change, and change is absolutely necessary for growth. If there is no change and challenge, there can be no growth and development.”
“Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.”
“Adversity begets spirituality.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.”
“Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.”
“Adversity can be a great unifier, a stimulus that helps people bind together with a secret glue.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.”
Source: The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph