Agatha Christie Quotes, Adventure Quotes, Dedication Quotes

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

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We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Encounters Quotes

Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.

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I kind of tend to do most of my adventures in my mind.

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Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

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An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

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For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Life Quotes , Adventure Quotes

Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.

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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Understanding Quotes

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

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The supreme adventure is being BORN

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The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Patience Quotes , Adventure Quotes

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Broken Quotes

Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it. Life is a great adventure, and I want to say to you, accept it in such a spirit.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Heart Quotes , Adventure Quotes

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

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When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

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