They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I've been climbing for almost twenty years now. I'm more inspired and more motivated. I feel stronger than I ever have. I… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb. — Greg Child Copy Share Image
Because grades in climbing are subjective, I am fan of making big gaps between climbing grades. — Adam Ondra Copy Share Image
By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when… — Chris Noth 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
I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up,… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
“Climbing mountains is an act I happen to love, but it is only one form of adventure. There are thousands. In fact,… — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
We really began to think in different ways about our business in terms of climbing this mountain and it became very clear… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“When he was preparing for a big fight, his trainer would take him mountain climbing to build up his hand strength and… — Christine Bell Copy Share Image
For me, one of the attractions simply is the variety of interests that climbing serves. In the Himalayas, it's the traveling, the… — Jeff Lowe Copy Share Image
Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight… — Jayson Blair 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
