I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affai...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE
(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampu...
JAMES BLAYLOCK A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say th...
PAUL THEROUX With weather delays in Chicago, it's a good option to go to St. Louis. This increases opportunity fo...
CHRIS RILEY Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
WILLA SIBERT CATHER I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is w...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I alway...
JANE BIRKIN My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander D...
TERRY BROOKS More and more outbound travelers don't want to travel for travel's sake; they want more leisure and ...
LI WEIMIN From bar mitzvah on, [S J Perelman] had dreamed of being a Jewish Robert Louis Stevenson.
ISRAEL SHENKER I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender m...
CHELSEA CAIN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b...
FRANCINE PASCAL Mealtime
"A mousie squealing in a trap
Woke me from my morning nap.
Wasn...
HENRY N. BEARD Capricorns like to stay in one place. I have to go to work in places like New York, but basically, I...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but i...
TOM BRADY I love to travel but hate traffic and planes. I wish I could just beam myself anywhere instantly.
JORDAN LADD I can not travel into my past, without consent of the future me.
TOBA BETA You have to go where the work is. I like the travel, so it's a definite perk.
PAIGE PRICE My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are v...
IRINA SHAYK PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Down to Gehenna or up to the throne,
He travels the fastest who travel alone.
RUDYARD KIPLING I am obsessed with planning travel! Not just traveling, which I love, but the whole planning process...
LAUREN WEISBERGER The idea is not to travel hundreds of miles, but to travel tens of miles.
CARLOS CASTILLO It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go for...
HELEN KELLER To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and tra...
ANDRE GIDE I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home...
HANNAH KEARNEY Go travel the world and not just be a tourist.
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI I get very homesick, but otherwise it's a great privilege to get to travel for work.
JESSE EISENBERG Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and...
BILL KURTIS All right, then, I'll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing...
LAURA CARMICHAEL They might go for one fewer day on their trip, but they will still travel.
BOB LANDRETH I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.
DAVID MACKAY I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to t...
H. R. GIGER Not I - not anyone else, can travel that road for you, / You must travel it for yourself.
WALT WHITMAN Travel without fear wherever you want to go -- to China, Thailand, Indonesia, Turkey.
FRANCESCO FRANGIALLI It's gonna be a really good summer, a really good travel season for St. Louis.
DONNA ANDREWS I'm trying to travel more. Like, intentionally travel. I really want to go and implicate myself ...
DAVID ALPAY The trend to travel rods has risen steadily since they were introduced. They now comprise about 60 p...
DAVE HAYWARD The two biggest factors that determine travel costs are: Do you go to a rich and therefore expensive...
EDWARD HASBROUCK The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.
SOURCE UNKNOWN My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford i...
JACQUELINE WINSPEAR Travel makes me feel like a bird,
Travel gives me a sense of freedom,
Travel makes me come...
ARCHANA CHAURASIA KAPOOR I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in ...
SUZANNE FINNAMORE The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I travel between Miracle Mile and (West) Valencia Road often, and for many months, many signs go unl...
BOB MITCHELL The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.
PAUL THEROUX People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.
RENE REDZEPI I love to travel, but hate to arrive.
HERNAN CORTES I love to travel,
But hate to arrive.
HERNANDO CORTEZ I love to travel, But hate to arrive.
HERNANDO CORTEZ In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr...
JOSHUA COHEN She had hoped to go to both countries. ... They are not facilitating her travel to the boundary regi...
JULIE RESIDE I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If ...
MICHAEL JACKSON People are telling Ernie to travel less because he is tiring himself out. I hope he doesn't listen t...
RETIEF GOOSEN What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...
Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, bu...
JULIAN BARNES Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.
JOSH BILLINGS To bring up a child in the way he should go - travel that way yourself.
JOSH BILLINGS Remember as you travel through life, no matter how far you go...
You still have to travel back once ...
KJFORCE Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working, I like to vacation relatively close...
HILARY RHODA We like to go to areas that are not typical of American travel, but we do like to find other choirs ...
JEFFREY SMITH When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with m...
MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN I still don't have a car. I still travel by public transport. I take autos to travel to and fro ...
ARIJIT SINGH We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
BURT RUTAN I would book it now and shop around. Talk to your travel agent and try to get the very best fare. Bu...
TED LAWSON Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have ...
WARREN SPECTOR I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.
MARJANE SATRAPI I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.
MICHAEL PHELPS The empty nest is great. It allows us to travel.
BUD ELLIOT People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w...
ANTHONY LICCIONE I enjoy baseball. I go to the home baseball games, I got to the home basketball games. I don't trave...
DARRELL ROYAL Hispanics have been very dominant in their willingness to vote with their feet — to move to other ...
RONALD LANGSTON Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. ...
JAMES HARDEN I see travelling as a great learning process, and my biggest dream is to travel the world.
POOJA HEGDE I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Wrung hands;
and silence;
and a lo...
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunit...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No baggage - there was the secret of existence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere an...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a milli...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to pr...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says n...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fi...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To the Hesitating Purchaser:
"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Noh, tead, abielu on nagu surm, see jõuab kord kõigile kätte," ütles Dick alistuvalt.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only
end in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON