Quotes with adventure

Quotes 41 till 60 of 65.

  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • Francis Bacon People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
    - +
     0
  • E. M. Forster Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Frist Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
    - +
     0
  • Oprah Winfrey The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Walter Lippmann The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
    - +
     0
  • Raymond Chandler The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
    - +
     0
  • Thornton Wilder The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Alfred N. Whitehead The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
    - +
     0
  • Billy Graham The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • William Trogdon There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.
    - +
     0
  • Sir James Matthew Barrie To die will be an awfully big adventure.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
    - +
     0
  • Barnett Newman To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risks.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Jawaharlal Nehru We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
    - +
     0
  • Nikki Giovanni We love because it's the only true adventure.
    Nikki Giovanni
    American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator (1943 - )
    - +
     0
  • Candice Millard When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
    - +
     0
  • Aristophanes Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
    - +
     0
  • Alfred N. Whitehead Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
    - +
     0
All adventure famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 3)