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Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another... -- H. Rider Haggard
The bold adventurer succeeds the best. -- Ovid
Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer. -- Louis Bonaparte
A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source. -- Arthur Baer
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. -- O. Henry
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes. -- Che Guevara
I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure -- Paulo Coelho
Chance is the providence of adventurers. -- Laurence Sterne
I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery. -- Karlheinz Stockhausen
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. -- Vincent Van Gogh
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. -- Baron de Montesquieu
You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important. -- Paulo Coelho
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers. -- Pearl S. Buck
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't. -- William Least Heat-Moon
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message. -- Moustapha Akkad
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life. -- Paulo Coelho
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. -- John Updike
He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books. -- Paulo Coelho
Im crazy about my father, hes an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them. -- Peta Wilson
The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. -- Isabel Allende
My job is, I'm a photographer. I'm something of a filmmaker. And primarily, I'm an adventurer. My job is to help people fall in love with their world, their planet. With the understanding that you don't save what you don't love. -- Sebastian Copeland
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery. -- Karlheinz Stockhausen
I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out. -- Shekhar Kapur
What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier. -- Chris Roberson
I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'. -- Jacki Weaver
I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it. -- Edi Gathegi
I'm an adventurer and I enjoy all types of things, and eating is a part of that. It's just too bad we have to watch what we eat. -- Lynda Carter
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer. -- Edmund Hillary
Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer. -- Paul Mellon
I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them. -- Peta Wilson
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations. -- Gore Vidal
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer. -- Helen Oyeyemi
That's the great thing about being an actor: Stuff shows up that you never thought was going to go down. You get to play or experience an area of the world that - you know, I live a pretty simple life, I'm not much of an adventurer. I like my couch and my television. So when stuff comes up in the job, it's a good deal. -- Justin Kirk
Man is a thought-adventurer. -- D. H. Lawrence
She's a real adventurer, my mother. -- Daphne Zuniga
I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer. -- Edith Wharton
Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer. -- Paulo Coelho
An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture. -- Jonas Mekas
By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor. -- Errol Flynn
The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch. -- Douglas Adams
I think planning to be a "professional adventurer" is about as realistic as planning to be a basketball player, so I don't usually encourage it. -- Andrew Skurka
You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. -- Richard Bach
Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him. -- Michael Foot
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure) -- Tom Robbins
I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it. -- Monique Coleman
He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer. -- Kurt Vonnegut
That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer. -- Joseph Conrad
â?¦not a fighterâ?¦ an adventurer. He doesn't attack, he engages; He doesn't defend, he expands; He doesn't destroy, he transforms; He doesn't reject, he explores; â?¦. -- Tom Robbins
The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I would describe myself as a "budding adventurer." I've transitioned away from being a straight-up backpacker, but I think I need another trip or two to get the adventurer degree. -- Andrew Skurka
The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean... -- Daniel Clowes
I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him - or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose. -- Jorge Luis Borges
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure. -- Paulo Coelho
If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples. -- Alan Hirsch
I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China and continue my profession. 'As sanitary engineer?' No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries in the world. -- Bruce Chatwin
Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. And what is that? I... am a librarian. -- The Mummy
As an entrepreneur, you've got to protect against the company going bust. And as an adventurer, you've got to protect against losing your life. It's even more important as an adventurer to get it right. -- Richard Branson

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