We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.
I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.
We provide a secure, stable space for children to grow up in, so children will be able to take risks and have adventures and do things that are unexpected. If there isn't a risk that your children can fail, then you haven't succeeded as a parent.
We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.
. . . fiction is made out of the writer's experience, his whole life from infancy on, everything he's thought and done and seen and read and dreamed. But experience isn't something you go and get - it's a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that "experience"; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing.
The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.
Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals. . . it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds
I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman. '
The job of conservatives is to keep the Republican Party driving on the right-hand side of the road. There are many ways we do this. We argue, we publish, we lobby, we campaign for conservative candidates. Another thing we do is, when the GOP goes off the rails on really key issues - size of government, the National Question, Wilsonian adventures - we stay home on election day.
We must never forget that today's legendary achievements-awesome as they may seem-were yesterday's risky adventures. Courage is not the capacity never to be afraid; as Karl Barth reminds us, "Courage is fear that has said its prayers. "
And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.
I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.
Prepare for joy - speak your truth, care for yourself, expand your knowledge, nurture your friendships, let people love you, take on new adventures, go where your heart leads you.
Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.