Adventurous Boy Quotes & Sayings

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance. — Gautama Buddha

my two primary sleep aids, Behemoth and a YouTube recording of a vacuum cleaner, the Hoover WindTunnel. I don't know why I find the sound comforting, Doc, when I was a child in Cairo, my afternoon naps coincided with the rhythmic beating of carpets outside the bedroom, I was used to sleeping to that sound, but no one beat carpets anymore, a shame, though lo and behold, I found that not only did a vacuum cleaner remove dirt more effectively, it summoned Hypnos just as well as a beating, and there were twelve-hour-long recordings of all kinds of household machines online, welcome to America, now go to sleep. Maybe — Rabih Alameddine

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. — Desi Arnaz

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ? — Charles Spurgeon

I hope that we have grateful hearts for the knowledge that we have and the testimonies we have and for the feelings we have. — David B. Haight

You do not mean there is danger of peace?, cried Jack. — Patrick O'Brian

If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character. — Taryn Manning

Parades ain't for the people on the floats, they're for the ones watching it go by. — Alex Bledsoe

I think I'm falling for a red herring here, — Liane Moriarty

Kiss me until I forget how terrified I am of everything wrong with my life. — Beau Taplin

If you are on a TV series and you have a hard time disassociating from that character when you get home, your love life is going to suffer, your children are going to suffer, your friends will suffer. — Julianna Margulies

One thing a girl loves more than a bad boy is a self-aware bad boy. — S.A. Tawks

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards. — S.A. Tawks

Byron published the first two cantos of his epic poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a romanticized account of his wanderings through Portugal, Malta, and Greece, and, as he later remarked, "awoke one morning and found myself famous." Beautiful, seductive, troubled, brooding, and sexually adventurous, he was living the life of a Byronic hero while creating the archetype in his poetry. He became the toast of literary London and was feted at three parties each day, most memorably a lavish morning dance hosted by Lady Caroline Lamb. Lady Caroline, though married to a politically powerful aristocrat who was later prime minister, fell madly in love with Byron. He thought she was "too thin," yet she had an unconventional sexual ambiguity (she liked to dress as a page boy) that he found enticing. They had a turbulent affair, and after it ended she stalked him obsessively. She famously declared him to be "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," which he was. So was she. — Walter Isaacson

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

There are a hundred ways in which a boy can injure - if not indeed kill - himself. The more adventurous he is and the greater his initiative, the more ways he will find. If you protect him from each of the first hundred, he is sure to find the hundred and first. Though most men can look back on their boyhood and tremble at the narrowness of some of their escapes, most boys do in fact survive more or less intact, and the wise father is the trusting father. — Christopher Milne