2,981 Quotes About Adventure

  • Author Francis Bacon
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    It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

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  • Author James M. Barrie
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    Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.

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  • Author John Baker
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    For me, ... it is 50 percent about the skiing and 50 percent about being in the mountains. You have to be very aware of where you are ... there is a sense of adventure about it that is extraordinary. The trip is sort of like an annual gift to myself.

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