(436 quotes found)
“Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling.”
T.S. Eliot
“If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world”
Andrew Mellon
“If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged”
Virginia Woolf
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
Amelia Earhart
“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind”
Eugene Ionesco
“It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.”
A. B. Guthrie Jr.
“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
“Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.”
Rebecca West
“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."”
Daniel J. Boorstin
