“White people love rock climbing almost more than they love camping. This is because the activity affords them the opportunity to be… — Christian Lander Copy Share Image
The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite)… — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction… — Alfred Wainwright Copy Share Image
There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second is immersed… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind was blowing, time stood still Eagle flew out of the… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Around half of the top alpinists have died climbing. Of course if I'm careful and turn back more often than the others,… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“Climbing Mount Everest is more satisfying than standing at the top; flirting and foreplay are more exciting than having an orgasm; and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Truthfully, I love being in the jungle. I love it when the make-up artists come to set, they come equipped with dirt… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest,… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I failed on a climbing problem eight times before realizing I was climbing as high as I knew I could and then… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent… — Jim Perrin Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
“Climbing was one of her strengths, but she didn’t do it with grace— which, come to think, was an apt description of… — Michelle Sagara Copy Share Image
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys… — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
Annapurna was a special situation. It was a lifetime dream to finish that route. When I started climbing the South Face, I… — Ueli Steck Copy Share Image
I find that rock climbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. It is much healthier than most; look… — John Salathe Copy Share Image
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Diversity is climbing’s greatest strength. There’s no way to get bored! Each game is so difficult, most people spend their lives trying… — Chris Noble Copy Share Image
I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Climbing a big wall over several days is like running a giant construction project: constantly making lists, rigging ropes, organising food, figuring… — Tommy Caldwell Copy Share Image
The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social… — David Breashears Copy Share Image
It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general… — Raha Moharrak Copy Share Image
Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We… — Steve Roper Copy Share Image
They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of… — Jim Perrin Copy Share Image
The bizarre trend in mountaineers is not the risk they take, but the large degree to which they value life. They are… — Lisa Morgan Copy Share Image
But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that… — Enzo Ferrari Copy Share Image
Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“It's not dying that is the problem, he said. 'Climbing is like a lover, and your wife knows this. Whenever you are… — Andy Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending.… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
For me, climbing has always been about adventure and that involves difficulties, danger and exposure, so I deliberately set out to climb… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
