Kurt Wilhelm Marek (C. W. Ceram) Quotes
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline and moderation. Explorations among the ruins of the remote past have carried curious men all over the face of the earth… Yet in truth, no science is more adventurous than archaeology, if adventure is thought of as a mixture of spirit and deed.
Kurt Wilhelm Marek
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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It's the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me.
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The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
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What typically emerges from looking at kids, gifted and ordinary, is that, from the kids’ point of view, accomplishment, that is, the private sense of mastery, the hard thing suddenly made easy, counts for far more in their inner lives than does the achievement-the competition won, the reward secured.
Adam Gopnik
A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.
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I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge.
Prince Charles
To go into therapy is an adventure, not really to iron anything out.
Jeff Bridges
You immediately hear the word 'Merlin,' you think magic, you think adventure, excitement - you also think 'an old man.'
Colin Morgan
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson Mandela
Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?
James Patterson
The next adventure is the government, a government of change.
Pier Luigi Bersani
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
Anna Garlin Spencer
The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
A. N. Wilson
The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.
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If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by changing your way of thinking about food. It cannot be the highlight of your life.
Jean Nidetch
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline and moderation. Explorations among the ruins of the remote past have carried curious men all over the face of the earth… Yet in truth, no science is more adventurous than archaeology, if adventure is thought of as a mixture of spirit and deed.
Kurt Wilhelm Marek
