59 quotes found
“I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.”
“Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesnt validate your worth.”
“Thoughts are such fleet magic things. Betsy's thoughts swept a wide arc while Uncle Keith read her poem aloud. She thought of Julia learning to sing with Mrs. Poppy. She thought of Tib learning to ...”
“Intelligence reports and local folklore together perpetuated tales of his bloody adventures across the rim worlds and badlands of Terran space. It was his trademark and often over the last two deca...”
“Explore new learning adventures.”
“Everyone has adventures in their lives. Some good ones, some bad ones.”
“Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.”
“Finding a taxi, she felt like a child pressing her nose to the window of a candy store as she watched the changing vista pass by while the twilight descended and the capital became bathed in a tran...”
“Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.”
“I knew all about reading a lot. About how it could take you to a world what was better than the real one. A world where there were adventures and mysteries and magic. Except, of course, books ended...”
“One thinks of nothing, he continued; the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blinding with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline ...”
“I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.”
“There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in a series, it's like chocolate ganache on the icing on the cake.”
“They inched through dense, heart-stopping darkness. In the distance was what looked like a bright white door cut out of a black wall. Sunni tiptoed towards it, puzzled by its brilliance.”
“I feel obligated to tell you that adventures are, on a whole, stunningly bad ideas, best avoided at all costs.”
“Like Desserts, books come in all kinds of tasty treats!”
“A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.”
“I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.”
“How much does an elephant weigh? ”
“Adventures are important things in our life, to forget about our aging.”
