2,981 Quotes About Adventure


  • Author Ernest Hemingway
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    It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

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  • Author Friedrich August von Hayek
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    We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in the power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.

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  • Author Graham Hancock
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    There are all kinds of ways to challenge ourselves. Some people do it by climbing a mountain or scuba diving. The most profound and challenging ordeals is to drink Ayahuasca. It is in a way the ultimate adventure.

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  • Author Ian Hacking
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    Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.

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  • Author Hulk Hogan
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    I'd like to be the John Wayne of the '90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.

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  • Author Jon Heder
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    It was just the adventure of creating this thing that we had hopes and dreams about. When we made 'Napoleon,' it was just that feeling of what was going to happen.

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