Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.
Peggy Kopman-OwensTags: adventure travel action mystery suspense
The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.
Peggy Kopman-OwensTags: adventure travel action mystery suspense
In any age, there is no shortage of people willing to embark on a hazardous adventure. Columbus and Magellan filled eight ships between them for voyages into the void. One hundred and fifty years ago, the possibilities offered by missionary service were limitless and first-rate. Later, Scott and Shackleton turned away droves after filling their crews for their desperate Antarctic voyages. In 1959 ... sailor H.W. Tilman, looking for a crew for a voyage in an old wooden yacht to the Southern Ocean, ran this ad in the London Times: "Hand [man] wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure." Tilman received more replies than he could investigate, one from as far away as Saigon.
Peter NicholsTags: adventure journey daring travel
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?
Carol ShieldsThis would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.
Peggy Kopman-OwensTags: adventure travel action mystery suspense thriller
I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure
Paulo CoelhoTags: inspirational adventure quote treasure the-alchemist insistence
Why are you in my room?”
“Because I can be.”
“You shouldn’t be.”
“Save it, Rochester. You broke my nose.”
“Does it hurt?”
He lifted a hand toward his face and dropped it. “You could say that.”
“Good.”
He nudged a tray on the floor with his boot. It had oatmeal, toast, and orange juice on it. “Hungry?”
Honor’s stomach growled. “No.”
Ryder’s lips turned up in a fleeting sadistic smile. He kicked the tray across the room. It hit the wall and overturned. “Good.
Tags: adventure science-fiction action young-adult
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Robert Louis StevensonTags: adventure
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known...
Vladimir NabokovTags: adventure moon exploration
It is not required that we know all of the details about every stretch of the river. Indeed, were we to know, it would not be an adventure, and I wonder if there would be much point in the journey.
Jeffrey R. AndersonTags: adventure grace navigation river life-journey
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