Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wolfgang Petersen

What are you going to do now? I just wrapped a remake of The Poseidon Adventure .. Lady in the Water.

William O. Douglas

I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. But man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. For fear confines him and limits his scope. He stays tethered by strings of doubt and indecision and has only a small and narrow world to explore.

Yehuda Amichai

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

Robert Kennedy

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

Robert Kennedy

Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

Robert Baden-Powell

It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.

Rob Mariano

Who knows, I have always lived one day at a time. Probably more adventure and excitement.

Rob Mariano

I love adventure, so I'm excited to be working on something new and making the transition from reality show contestant to host.

Richard Russo

Where was the middle ground between a sense of adventure and just plain sense?

Robert Dale Owen

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Roald Amundsen

With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.

Richard Rohr

THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.

Tamara Ecclestone

I, for one, am ready for a lot more adventure and a lot less nothing.

Tacitus

Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.

Samina Baig

My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

Tom Robbins

Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.

Tom Robbins

Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

Tom Robbins

My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

Tom Robbins

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Tom Robbins

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

Stephen Sondheim

The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure.

Stephen Fry

When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.

Ron Luce

The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.

Roger Staubach

In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.

Zoe Saldana

I love being in space. I love being challenged by great roles that a company like Marvel creates amazing movies that no only give audiences an adventure but also give us as artists an opportunity for us to be challenged to embody amazing, multilayered characters.