All Quotes By Tag: Adventure

“Don’t ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.”

“Having something is not always better than not having it.”

“You will never get to a new place by walking an old path.”

“How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you.”

“You do not have to know which path you must take. That’s not how life works. You simply must be curious and daring enough to take a step into the unknown. That’s how you come to know.”

“Every great endeavour is fueled by great enthusiasm.”

“Nobody played poker with Mike Walsh–at least, not twice–but people fought to get aboard Constellation. Her command record since Mike took her was almost the equal of Enterprise’s for danger, daring, and success not only snatched from the jaws of failure, but afterward used to beat failure over the head.”

“I find that romance is for readers. I want adventures; they are for the living.”

“Sir Henry fixed him with a keen eye.’Odd name, Tom Skatt – eh?”Thats right”You don’t think we could be related?’Tom looked up at his great-great-great-uncle and smiled.’I don’t think so”No,’ grinned Sir Henry “no, of course not”

“ADOU RAM TAPOVANADI GAMANAM”

“Throwing yourself into the purse of a dream is the biggest adventure you can take on.”

“You know, through my travels and meeting people who were part of Miriam’s life, I’m learning that it’s the things you say and do that people remember you for. She is no longer here but she lives on in people’s hearts and minds.”

“Space opera, as every reader doubtless knows, is a pejorative term often applied to a story that has an element of adventure. Over the decades, brilliant and talented new writers appear, receiving great acclaim, and each and every one of them can be expected to write at least one article stating flatly that the day of space opera is over and done, thank goodness, and that henceforth these crude tales of interplanetary nonsense will be replaced by whatever type of story that writer happens to favor — closet dramas, psychological dramas, sex dramas, etc., but by God important dramas, containing nothing but Big Thinks. Ten years late, the writer in question may or may not still be around, but the space opera can be found right where it always was, sturdily driving its dark trade in heroes.”

“Some of us let this realization guide us… We book trips to Tibet, we learn how to sculpt, we skydive. We try to pretend it’s not almost over. But some of us just fill up our gas tanks and top off our Metro cards and do the grocery shopping, because if you only see the path that’s right ahead of you, you don’t obsess over when the cliff might drop off.”

“Don’t be so eager to arrive at your destination. Take the long way. Enjoy the ride, the view. Get a little lost, make new friends and a few mistakes along the way.”