217 quotes found
“The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.”
“He gets a good hold on the paintbrush then confidently has the ladder removed.”
“Speaking of Ted Turner The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
“The soul should always stand ajar ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
“If man is not ready to risk his life where is his dignity?”
“We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.”
“A dreamer-you know-it's a mind that looks over the edges of things.”
“I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened and I'm not afraid to look behind them.”
“The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me.”
“We owe something to extravagance for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.”
“Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy.”
“Between two evils I always picked the one I never tried before.”
“There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead where there were no paths.”
“Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
“I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.”
“Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.”
“The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.”
“People who are born even-tempered placid and untroubled-secure from violent passions or temptations to evil-those who have never needed to struggle all night with the angel to emerge lame but vict...”
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
