Long Adventure Quotes

#1. 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

#2. ...for I realized how narrow my world had been and that self-education could be and should be an exciting life-long adventure.

Aurelia Schober Plath

#3. The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got a long adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.

Joseph Campbell

#4. Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it.
Even as a child, I noticed that Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz spent her entire time trying to get back home to Kansas, and Alice in Wonderland dreamed her long adventure, then woke up just in time for tea.

Gloria Steinem

#5. One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

#6. Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure , and meaning. The safe harbor is not for me, not for long. Let the fearful stand at the shore and point as we head into the unknown, toward that vast horizon where the bold become legend.

Brendon Burchard

#7. Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

Cate Blanchett

#8. Somedays I grow tired of life and long for the next great adventure.

Atticus

#9. Don't waste a minute fretting over the infinite destructive possibilities of The Singularity. Think of all the fun we're going to have along the way! It will all be one glorious adventure, start to finish!

Richard Long

#10. Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly lived.

Richard Bach

#11. As long as you're going to think anyway, think big.

Donald Trump

#12. As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes or a touch of wilderness in their souls, rapids will be run.

Sigurd F. Olson

#13. Just one act of kindness can change someone's whole world.

Heather Wolf

#14. It is one long adveture, let's continue it!
Let's make it as long as possible!

Deyth Banger

#15. From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attentuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving.

Luke Davies

#16. I realized if I didn't just go, I'd never go. Going was the key. It didn't matter where I was headed just as long as I was headed somewhere. ~ Ben Davis

Jayden Hunter

#17. Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.

Michael Dirda

#18. In this world we must try to be kind to one another.

Heather Wolf

#19. We can learn a lesson from the butterfly beginning it's life crawling along the ground, then spinning a cocoon, patiently waiting until the day it will fly.

Heather Wolf

#20. It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.

Sara Sheridan

#21. Maybe, if I had lied all those years ago, my life could have followed a very different path. But as it is I faithfully follow the long, long thread the Fates have woven for me.

Rosie Pugh

#22. All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.

Michael Chabon

#23. Hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.

Constantine P. Cavafy

#24. She gazed at the bay of wrecked shuttles in dismay. The last of her adrenaline seeped away at the sight of the widespread destruction.

It occurred to her then, for perhaps the first time in this long nightmare, that she was going to die.

G.S. Jennsen

#25. Donald Trump foreign policy speech got good reviews, and it says we're going to defeat the people who are direct threats to us, but we're going to be a lot more cautious about getting involved in long-term, Wilsonian adventures.

Jeff Sessions

#26. As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while; a little growling goes a long way.

Tahir Shah

#27. And after two days in civilization we realized we could never stay for long and started to plan our next adventure.

Bob Bitchin

#28. Just sharing one little smile can change someone's whole world.

Heather Wolf

#29. Most fight sequences on a television show, probably any action adventure show that you know of, if you asked them how long they probably spend, [it's] one or two days doing the fight. Where we were spending eight days concurrently with an episode doing our fight sequences.

Alfred Gough

#30. Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt.

G.A. Henty

#31. As long as you don't kill someone or seriously maim them, sure, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as you have a good time.

S.A. Tawks

#32. On the long drive home, Laurence tuned out his parents explaining to him that life isn't an adventure, for chrissake, life is a long slog and a series of responsibilities and demands. When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn't do what he liked.

Charlie Jane Anders

#33. Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

Dean Koontz

#34. Life can be very hard sometimes and you wonder why, but a little compassion is sometimes all anyone needs to get by.

Heather Wolf

#35. It was a well-known fact that keeping track of time was not Parry Pretty's forte ... If time were Parry's pet, it would have died tied to a tree somewhere out back long ago.

S.J. Musgraves

#36. Pulling back, like a savage carnivore at its prey, it tore a large chunk of meat rendering his left arm useless...regardless he did not require it for long.

Stacy Buck

#37. Made in the image of a perfect relationship, we are relational to the core of our beings and filled with a desire for transcendent purpose. We long to be an irreplaceable part of a shared adventure.

John Eldredge

#38. One day, long ago, she'd gone seeking an adventure and found terror instead. That day had changed the course of her life, and left her hands awash in blood. It was not her fault, but this was how it must be. She understood that now.

Christina Henry

#39. It was not very long before he discovered; but that belongs to the next chapter and the beginning of another adventure in which the hobbit again showed his usefulness.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#40. Long-established totalitarian governments fear any kind of free expression. A sculpture can be a manifesto, a manuscripted adventure can double as a cry for rebellion.

Alan Dean Foster

#41. You have been gifted the Blood Diamond and are surrounded by all that is good. You will not fail as long as you believe." Analea

Kathy Cyr

#42. It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.

Garry Kasparov

#43. I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.

Erica Sehyun Song

#44. So off had gone John to the wars again. But he had not remained for long in the position of a humble volunteer. Colonel Clifton, commanding the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, no sooner heard that Crazy Jack was back then he enrolled him as an extra aide-de-camp.

Georgette Heyer

#45. The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

Norman Rockwell

#46. I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

Anthony Bourdain

#47. Aiken nodded. 'I get it. But the King is getting a bit long in the tooth for that kind of adventure. Rogering maidens is more his style these days.

Julian May

#48. I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself ... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!

Kylie Minogue

#49. And, for the gods sake, don't waste the whole day working! Make time for a bit of adventure dear. This life is only so long.

Adrastus Rood

#50. Practice loving kindness wherever you may go.

Heather Wolf

#51. NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

Hanna Rosin

#52. As long as we keep searching, the answers come.

Joan Baez

#53. Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day.

Richard Branson

#54. I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

Buzz Aldrin

#55. I copied the address into my address book, erasing an earlier one that had not been good for very long. No address of his was good for very long and the paper in my address book where his address is written is thin and soft from being erased so often.

Lydia Davis

#56. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller

#57. You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.'
'Are you saying I have no choice?'
'We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.

Anthony Horowitz

#58. The journey you start now can take you on the adventure of a lifetime ... it's up to you. Education is a life-long process. Determine now to never stop learning and to never give up on your dreams.

Carol Edwards

#59. ...and they buried him there, just off the trail, in a glade ten miles from the majestic Salween, a long way from home, but what dead man is not?

Stephen Becker

#60. We stand at the onset of a great age of adventure - and always shall, so long as we keep doing science.

Timothy Ferris

#61. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.

Neil Gaiman

#62. At last they settled down to their long watch - squatting round the fire, and laughing for sheer love of adventure as good campaigners should; for were there not marching towards them some eight dark hours equipped with who could say what curious weapons from the rich arsenal of night and day?

Hope Mirrlees

#63. When setting out upon your way to Ithaca,
wish always that your course be long,
full of adventure, full of lore.

Constantine P. Cavafy

#64. You matter because you are you and there is no other person in this world who could ever take your place.

Heather Wolf

#65. Adventure stank. She boasted sixty oars, a single sail, and a long lean hull that promised speed. Small, but she might serve, Quentyn thought when he saw her, but that was before he went aboard and got a good whiff of her.

George R R Martin

#66. The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome.

S.A. Tawks

#67. I have always wanted to leave the village and seek adventure. I long to be remembered for something, even if that something is merely the pursuit of my dreams.

Walt Disney Company

#68. Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

Lorraine Anderson

#69. Reluctantly, we had already accepted every challenge at the moment we were born. And as long as we live, we have no right to give up. For we, or at least someone very similar to us, already died once, long ago in a faraway place.

Jeno Marz

#70. With just a little drop of kindness you can water a whole garden.

Heather Wolf

#71. But our back is to legends and we are coming home. I suppose this is the first taste of it.'
'There is a long road yet,' said Gandalf.
'But it is the last road,' said Bilbo.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#72. Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot.

Shane Carruth

#73. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.

John Muir

#74. If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

Graham Greene

#75. Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.

Fritz Zwicky

#76. A fortress built long ago,
Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story.

Rachel Lewis

#77. 2D looks so flat. Well, it is, of course, it's flat. But 3D isn't. And for an adventure story that takes you into a long-distant, fictional world, it's ideal, I think.

Ian McKellen

#78. Effie Seabright, we've been fated to meet you for a long time.

Rosie Pugh

#79. When you set out on you journey to Ithaka, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.

Constantine P. Cavafy

#80. I'm not interested in light little flings, skin-deep attractions, or long loveless marriages. With you, I only want raw, full-blooded connection, to share a bond full of passion and breathtaking adventure. After all, love is not a pastime but a privilege.

Beau Taplin

#81. We the People . . . The People of the Long House.

P.J. Parker