Great Expedition Quotes

#1. RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.

Ernest Shackleton

#3. I feel disgust when I think of how we climb our little hills when the Officials say the word. How we hand over our most precious items at their bidding. How we never, ever fight.

Ally Condie

#4. Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples ... is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

Sam Keen

#5. I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is I don't.

Jack Bauer

#6. There's nothing wrong with a male's point of view, obviously, but it's just a different way of telling a story.

Melanie Griffith

#7. Though everyone I knew seemed to be either settling down or looking to settle down, I was never on a deep-sea fishing expedition to find a boyfriend. And a "great catch," well, that seemed to be begging for heartache.

Julie Buxbaum

#8. Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

Alexander The Great

#9. In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Love is always dangerous. To love is to hope you'll win it all while running the risk that you could lose it all. And sometimes it's also about accepting that there's a risk that you'll love more than you are loved.

Guillaume Musso

#11. Therefore bivouac we On this great, blond highway, unimpeded by Veiled scruples, worn conundrums. Morning is Impermanent. Grab sex things, swing up Over the horizon like a boy On a fishing expedition.

John Ashbery

#12. That's what life is about: finding something you can do that no one else can, and working your hardest at it. It's about finding someone you love like no one else, someone who loves you like no one else does.

A.G. Riddle

#13. I hope I inspire children to make films.

Martin Freeman

#14. For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

Plato

#15. The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.

Robin Hobb

#17. What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

Alison Gopnik

#18. Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that list.

David Bronstein

#19. The Order seemed to adhere to the principle of suckers walk, players ride.

Lev Grossman

#20. After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea

Ernest Shackleton

#21. And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

Gavin Douglas

#22. The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.

John Hanning Speke

#23. Some art are meant to cut short
stretching them unnecessary makes it dull.

Yarro Rai

#24. And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world.

C.P. Cavafy

#25. In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.

Penn Jillette