Adventure

(400 votes)   I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Vincent Van Gogh
1853-1890, Dutch Painter

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(353 votes)   And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(352 votes)   The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(337 votes)   Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(301 votes)   An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(280 votes)   If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(280 votes)   The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(265 votes)   If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(262 votes)   Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

David Grayson
1870-1946, American Journalist and Writer

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(247 votes)   A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(226 votes)   Adventure is worthwhile.

Amelia Earhart
1897-1937, American Aviator, Author

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(226 votes)   Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Alfred North Whitehead
1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher

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(225 votes)   You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941, Indian Poet, Philosopher

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