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“There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.”

Romance Desire Trouble Adventure

Author:Hal Hartley

“There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into distress, and to ruin innocence. When men of rank and figure pass away their lives in these criminal pursuits and practices, they ought to consider that they render themselves more vile and despicable than any innocent man can be, whatever low station his fortune or birth have placed him in.”

Source: The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer

“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.”

World Stills America Romance Wonder Mystery Sea Land Adventure Gold Ancient Spells Hung Unbroken

Book:France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

Source: France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

“The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.”

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Book:The Quotable Billy Graham

Source: The Quotable Billy Graham

“Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.”

Romance Perfect Adventure Flying Combination Pilots Perfect Combination

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.”

Christian Romance Young Fiction Fantasy Mystery Adventure Offers Adults Appreciate Science Fiction Historical Young Adult Contemporary Variety Suspense

Author:Randy Alcorn

“Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.”

Romance Adventure Approach Where You Are

Book:What are Masterpieces

Source: What are Masterpieces

“Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.”

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Book:Wilma

Source: Wilma

“I was much more into romance as a teenager and it's been a kind of new discovery for me to learn about sci-fi adventure. I think it's a really interesting genre and it's all about imagination. It's boundless what you can do in these stories.”

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Author:Olivia Wilde

“I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.”

Life Spiritual Romance Night Wonder Saws Adventure Sweet Holy Burning Remembered Paradise Sunshine Ethical Day And Night Unselfish Blazing Holy Grail

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)

“I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.”

Littles Book Romance Bits Adventure Little Bit Novelists Mysticism Delighted Riders Heirs Haggard

Author:Wilbur Smith

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”

“It's about average for us. Behavior always draws more than survey. We're the sexy ones,' Nate said with a grin. Amy snorted. 'Oh, yeah, you guys are the Mae Wests of the nerd world.' We're action nerds,' Nate said. 'Adventure nerds. Nerds of romance.”

World Said Action Romance Guy Adventure Behavior Draws Yeah West Average Sexy Nerd Surveys Amy Mae

Book:Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

Source: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

“Here is adventure. Here is romance. Here is mystery. Tropical rivers – silently flowing into the unknown. The unbelievable splendor of exotic flowers … the eerie sound of the jungle … with eyes that are always watching. This is Adventureland.”

Eye Romance Sound Mystery Adventure Flower Rivers Unbelievable Jungle Exotic Splendor Tropical Eerie

Author:Walt Disney

“She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.”

Looks Would Be Romance Fun Easy Risk Willing Adventure Habit Quiet Painful Plenty Looking Back

Book:Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”

“Life has no romance without risk.”

Life Romance Risk Adventure Strong Women Mountaineering Risk-taking Amputees

Author:Sarah Doherty

“There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.”

Romance Greater Adventure Realization

Book:Life is a Jest

Source: Life is a Jest

“It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.”

Stories Feelings Home Past Remember Romance Natural Responsibility Land Adventure Drama Travel Fascinating Tides Funny Travel Adopted Tidy Carefree Natural Feelings

Author:Erich von Stroheim

“Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.”

Source: Pornography: men possessing women

“I’m loving doing Outlander. We’ve got a great cast and we’re up in the Scottish Highlands. […] It’s big budget, they’re spending a lot of money on it. They’re going for a very gritty and realistic portrayal of the Highlands and I play Dougal MacKenzie, the War Chieftain of Clan MacKenzie. As that implies, he’s quite the serious character. There’s lots of political intrigue, there’s romance, there’s adventure and action and there’s time-travel.”

“Trace of Magic caught me up fast and pulled me in tight for a fun, action-and-sass adventure full of deadly magic and dangerous romance. Diana Pharaoh Francis delivers a downright terrific read.”

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Author:Devon Monk

“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.”

Ends Romance Love Is Relationship Security Adventure Offers Commitment Luxury Vessel Marriage Advice Life Time

Author:Esther Perel

“If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."”

Ifs Romance Hate Sex Violence Seeing Adventure Travel Funny Travel You Like It

Author:Joe Bob Briggs

“Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and adventure we all crave. Her celebration of the richness of cultural diversity heralds the possibility of a mutually enhancing multicultural community. Here, too, is a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.”