Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

Mariah Carey

It's kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don't get on the ride, you won't experience the adventure.

Maurice Sendak

Inside all of us is HOPE. Inside all of us is FEAR. Inside all of us is ADVENTURE. Inside all of us is A WILD THING.

Maynard Ferguson

I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz'... it's an adventure.

Neal Stephenson

Give me an adventure. I'm not talking about some massive adventure. Just something that would make getting fired seem small. Something that I might remember when I'm old." "I can't predict the future," I said, "but based on what little I know so far, I'm afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing." "Great!" "Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial.

Neale Donald Walsch

I tell you this: There is no coincidence, and nothing happens "by accident." Each event and adventure is called to your Self by your Self in order that you might create and experience Who You Really Are.

Madeleine L'Engle

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.

Lucy Lawless

We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.

Louisa May Alcott

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

Louisa May Alcott

I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.

Jonathan Franzen

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

Jon Voight

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

Kate Baldwin

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

Kate Atkinson

Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.

Rachel Bilson

My next adventure will be being in a car with Mischa at the wheel.

Peter Mayle

There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

Peter McWilliams

Nothing adventured, nothing attained

Paulo Coelho

Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.

Paulo Coelho

Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life.

Paulo Coelho

The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort

Paulo Coelho

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?

Peter George Peterson

One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.

Pier Luigi Bersani

The next adventure is the government, a government of change.

Pico Iyer

I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances, as well as one of the most rewarding things, is to go and meet the neighbors, find out who they are, and what they think and feel. So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

Pico Iyer

So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation.

Mickey Hart

Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.

Nathaniel Philbrick

To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.

Nathaniel Branden

A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness.

Paul Kagame

The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.

Ovid

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

Paul Verlaine

The poet is a madman lost in adventure.