Misadventures Quotes

#1. Life at its best is a series of misadventures with a few sound decisions thrown in just to make it livable.

Sebastian Di Mattia

#2. For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures in the Adirondacks is a necessary corrective for those who go into the mountains unwary of the dangers.

Jim Wickwire

#3. We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.

Paul Kurtz

#4. Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures ... but let's try to have some fun along the way.

Brian K. Vaughan

#6. K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.

Ed Viesturs

#7. Witnessing the misadventures of supposedly enlightened adepts and their devotees can be depressing. But it can also be amusing.

Sam Harris

#8. There is always a philosophy behind the misadventures of men, even if they are unaware of it.' And

Lawrence Durrell

#9. You don't know what narrow lives girls have, how few real adventures there are for them; misadventures, yes, like abortions and little men following them in subways, but seldom anything like seeing ships at night.

Joyce Johnson

#10. Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud.

Marie Brennan

#11. Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Stephen Hawking

#12. We may not be able to create or control all of the events that impact our lives but we can create and control our responses to everything that we experience.

Ilchi Lee

#13. Intoxicating affections mimic marriage. They don't last!

DeBorrah K. Ogans

#14. Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.

Billy Graham

#15. The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.

Charles Kennedy

#16. I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure..

Amos Bronson Alcott

#18. UNDERSTANDING
Everything is a game of beliefs; 'Understanding' is the whole thing.

Sirshree