Top 1200 Greatest Adventure Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.

...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

The fact that we are aware of ourselves is both our greatest curse and also our greatest blessing.

If the Senate is the world's greatest deliberative body, the House is poised to be the world's greatest tweeting one.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.

Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.

Health, contentment, and trust are your greatest possessions. And freedom your greatest joy.

The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.

Parenthood is an adventure.

In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.

We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds ... It's still the greatest move I've ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

There was no better entrance in history than The Ultimate Warrior. It was the greatest entrance between the music that had that guitar riff, and that face paint, and the tassels, and the gear. It was the greatest!

I'm going on an adventure!

He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.

The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind.

In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain.

The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell.

I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.

The greatest threat that the world faces, the greatest national security threat is a nuclear Iran.

If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician. If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Jazz is my adventure.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.

The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.

As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.

People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.

Obviously I'm not the greatest scorer in the world or the greatest shooter in the world, but I'm tough and rebounding is something that not too many people want to put the effort into doing.

Adventure is worthwhile.

This life is the greatest lie ever told and the hereafter is the greatest truth ever unknown

My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.

I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

I like adventure.

But the challenge is always the same - whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

Our greatest challenge-our greatest opportunity-is found in these words: 'Choose ye this day....'.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

I worked with the world's greatest talents and then went home to the world's greatest woman. It was, and is, a great life.

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.

Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn't in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences are being fundamentally revised. . . Psychology, economics, and sociology are awaiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein.

This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.

Nothing is going to change the fact that I believe Ronald Reagan is the greatest president in my lifetime - may well be the greatest president this nation ever had.

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.

Adventure with a purpose is what we do.

The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.

Am I the greatest? I don't know. I'm the greatest that I can be.

Writing is an adventure.

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

As for character, there is no doubt that the greatest of all time is The Undertaker, right? Look at all the time he has spent in the business and everything he has achieved. He is one of the greatest in history, and I will remember him forever.