Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Eno

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Donald Miller

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

Clare Boothe Luce

the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

Anna Louise Strong

Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

David Foster Wallace

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Carl von Clausewitz

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

Carl von Clausewitz

Only great and general battles can produce great results

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.

Charles Kingsley

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

Charles Cumming

I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.

Denis Healey

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

Arleigh Burke

Success can not be administrated.

Abdallah II of Jordan

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

Bernie Sanders

I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.

Tom Duxbury

Ten years of planning and seven years of flight operations were realized early this morning when we successfully picked up our return capsule off of the desert floor in Utah.

Jim Bell

He's done a wonderful job as far as when he's represented Desert Vista High School.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her