"We in middle age require adventure."

-- Carolyn Heilbrun

#Adventure Quotes #Age Quotes #Funny Travel Quotes

“There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or love passes from the heart, and we feel the sorrow of partition.”
“The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.”
“Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.”
“Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.”
“I dreamed about these moments, and I think I hoped I would have them, but you don't know. So when the lucky break hits, it's like being Cinderella and hopefully midnight doesn't come.”
“I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.”

Source : "Mireille Enos Is Killing Us". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. April 15, 2012.
“We are in a fool's climate, accidentally kept cool by smoke, and before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.”
“Development is a fundamental part of our national security. It is extreme poverty- the realities of access to water and food- which create the long-term drivers of our insecurity. Most wars are fought over scarce resources and that is going to accelerate in the future.”

Source : "Rajiv Shah: Our aid work is for the American people". Interview with Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2011.

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