An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome. The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports. The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business ventu...
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Quotations About This Subject:
- Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. ,
- And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. ,
- Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ,
- We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. ,
- Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. ,
- The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. ,
- The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers. ,
- A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. ,
- If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. ,
- The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
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- Revenge of the Whale ,
- The Night Lives On ,
- Five Against the Sea ,
- The wreck of the William Brown ,
- Three miles down ,
- Buried treasures you can find ,
- New world shipwrecks, 1492-1825 ,
- Treasure lost at sea ,
- My Life and Travels ,
- My Kenya days
