I could have drowned…and my brother didn’t even care.

We—humanity—didn’t come this far by being afraid. Explorers and visionaries have willingly headed off to certain death for thousands of years and by doing so brought us to where we are today. No one has...

…this.

…and yet, at the end of it all, a few very broad lines did seem to stick out, like the primary colors in a painting that explain all the confusing blends. And once I had...

What if I were to step out to chase that dream? Why not take the first steps and see what happens? When we step through the doorway of adventure our life is suddenly worth the...

There are demons within. And they’re the deadliest kind.

Oh, here we go, firing questions right and left. I sort of missed that part. [Mina’s most endearing trait?]

Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.

This time Simone did not smile at all.”I cannot tell that to you, child. This is asecret I am not allowed to talk about. I only hope that you willknow how to follow the true...

What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn’t an adventure?

Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of time.

We both knew the place we were at and what that meant. We both felt the regret and the loss. We both knew that without me, none of it would have been possible. Without me,...

There is a road which leads to all roads. The name of that road is adventure!

I groan but answer the call in a sing song voice.”Kitty Lung, hero or terrorist, you take your pick.

Now it’s clear to me, I haven’t understood as well as I should, the cracks on the ground we stood. A blast ignited through ballot boxes by the choices of unsuspecting and innocent Nigerians has...

There’s adventure in the air. . . and cake to be eaten.

Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.

Perhaps the palms had been whispering warnings in the sultry breeze.

Everything was an adventure, at night, when you were where you shouldn’t be, even if it was somwhere you could go perfectly well in daylight, and it was then only ordinary.

If you don’t believe in yourself, who will?’ ~Maybeck

I no longer hated the whining, menacing dragonfly we rode in, but admired its grace as we surged towards the clouds, the lights of Edinburgh twinkling below us like the starry constellations of a world...

In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for...

Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?

This way I can get an adrenaline rush through the adventure, rather than through drinks and injections as some people do.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

…it was even more disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases the bulk of the terrain over which you had to fly was bluntly marked: ‘UNSURVEYED.’...

Anyone can take an adventure even if it’s only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.

What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?

To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.

Before he got too far, he thought he smelled a fire.No sooner did he blink before he sensed something dire.He heard a sound and froze, danger tickling his nose.His ears perked up as tiny cries...

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how ‘successful’ your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

I never want to be a passive observer of life’s possibilities.

Cambodian dust whipped up in the wind and stuck to my clothes like clay. I put a hand between my face and the sun and blinked Phnom Penn dust from my tired eyes. One idea,...

Do you love me?” His voice rang flat in his own ears, deadened and weighted with the recognition there was only one chance, and a fool’s chance at that

Perhaps one of the reasons I’ve avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose.

We don’t know where we’re going, but isn’t is fun to go?

My hope fuels my determination to overcome any difficulty.

Travel does not exist without home….If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after...

Spring time is a time for new adventure.

How are things with you, sir?””Fine.” He says it flat.”Coffee black. BLT.”Now my heart tells me this guy needs more in life, so I take a short. “You ever had a cheese burger with grilled...

I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it–our life–hides from us, made invisible...

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?””That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.””I don’t much care where –””Then it doesn’t matter which way you...

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

Home is where you go to find solace from the ever changing chaos, to find love within the confines of a heartless world, and to be reminded that no matter how far you wander, there...

When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.*

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

She knew that her lifework had changed forever that day. She was being called to use her gift to help prevent a tragedy such as this from ever happening again. And she knew, without question,...

Who knows what adventure we might find here?” Drizzt said excitedly. “Who knows what secrets might be unveiled to us?””Adventure?” Dunkin asked incredulously, looking to the carnage along the beach, and to the zombies still...

Something in this meadow and places like it, humble and hidden, offers respite and moments of calm for the wild, adventurous soul that plagues the boys of the world, the wanderer’s soul that gnaws and...

Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.