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Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle. -- Mike Caro
Donegan Bane and Gracious O'Callahan - the Monster Hunters. Adventurers, inventors, authors of Monster Hunting for Beginners and it's sequels, Monster Hunting for Beginners is Probably Inadvisable and Seriously, Dude, Stop Monster Hunting. -- Derek Landy
There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was Dax. Anyone that's roughly my age that's named Dax is named from that book. -- Dax Shepard
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. -- Baron de Montesquieu
To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour. -- Steve Fossett
As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers. -- Paul Allen
Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. -- Renzo Piano
Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit. -- Tom Cochrane
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t. -- William Trogdon
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
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
It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers. -- John Henrik Clarke
My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from. -- Michael Moritz
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
Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight. -- Chip Conley
Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed secret places, such as the Challenger Deep, which today lure hi-tech adventurers like Richard Branson and James Cameron, will undoubtedly provide welcome fodder for 'National Geographic.' -- Seth Shostak
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
Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers. -- James Buchan
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels. -- Robin Wasserman
When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself. -- Ted Naifeh
Chance is the providence of adventurers. -- Laurence Sterne
Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers. -- Philip Freneau
It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry. -- Thomas Gray
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs. -- Pam Brown
The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep -- Samuel de Champlain
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive. -- Alexander Eliot
The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety. -- Samuel de Champlain
If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...? -- Michael Chabon
I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. -- Brian Selznick
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers. -- Pearl S. Buck
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
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. -- Renzo Piano
There are moments when suddenly our eyes blink open and we recapture the excitement of living. Life becomes an adventure and we, adventurers. -- Wayne Visser
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it. -- Francois Rabelais
The great question of all choosers and adventurers is 'Was it worth while?' - and whatever else you may expect of life, don't expect an answer to that. -- Sheila Kaye-Smith
The men in my life were wonderful, but they were very artistic and very creative and they were adventurers like myself. So it wasn't right to settle down with them. -- James, son of Zebedee
Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, "? he said. "We racing drivers are adventurers; the more difficult something is, the greater the attraction that comes from it. -- Juan Manuel Fangio
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile. -- John Maynard Keynes

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