Best travel & risk Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

Author:Andre Gide

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel

“Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates.”

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Author:Paul Fussell

“You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.”

“The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.”

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Author:Paul Theroux

“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.”

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.”

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Author:Douglas Coupland

“The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.”

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Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

“A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.”

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Author:Anne Bancroft

“Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.”

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Author:Jim Ryun

“Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.”

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Author:Jon Voight

“Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.”

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Book:The Faith of a Liberal

Source: The Faith of a Liberal

“Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again.”

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Book:How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling

Source: How to Shit Around the World: The Art of Staying Clean and Healthy While Traveling

“The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”

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Book:The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

Source: The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

“If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.”

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Book:The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came to my bed and begged me with sighs not to tempt her towards passion nor actions unwise, I told her I’d spare her and kissed her closed eyes, then unbraided her body of its clothing disguise. While our bodies were nude bathed in candlelight fine I devoured her mouth, tender lips divine; and I drank through her thighs her feminine wine. Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

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