#venture

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#carpe-diem #enjoy-life #experience #inspirational #life

To die will be an awfully big adventure. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#awfully #big #big adventure #die #will

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure." ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#call #hate #like #romance #seeing

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today. ↗

— Graham Brown

#bleeds #came #equipment #everything #feeling

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#excitement #excursion #full #greatest #illustrated

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#considered #inconvenience #only #rightly #wrongly

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#although #antiquated #begun #course #had

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#after #amusement #areas #barrier #disaster

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths. ↗

— John Stockwell

#attention #bowl #diverting #effective #military

I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story. ↗

— Dan McCurrigan

#courage #death #emotional #hero #humanity