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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Adventure'

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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, American Historian (1914-2004)
If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure."
Joe Bob Briggs, American Critic (1953-  )
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist (1908-1974)
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.
Terry Brooks, American Writer (1944-  )
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
Heywood Broun, American Journalist (1888-1939)
All adventure is now reactionary.
William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist (1925-2008)
I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.
Tim Cahill, Australian Athlete (1979-  )
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Taylor Caldwell, American Author (1900-1985)
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
Harry Callahan, American Photographer (1912-1999)
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
Joseph Campbell, American Author (1904-1987)
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie, American Writer (1888-1955)
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
Emanuel Celler, American Politician (1888-1981)
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin, English Actor (1889-1977)
For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.
Leslie Charteris, British Writer (1907-1993)
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer (1874-1936)
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer (1874-1936)
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer (1874-1936)
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
Steven Chu, American Scientist (1948-  )
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Jennie Churchill, American Celebrity (1854-1921)
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
Glenn Close, Actress (1947-  )
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