It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
As in everything else, I find that age is not good for much, that one becomes deafer and less sensitive. Also, the… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
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
Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The biggest government waste: The death penalty. An individual death-penalty case could climb to $100 million, much of it spent at the… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Metz's Perfection chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking… — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow.… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the… — Bruce Barcott Copy Share Image
For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Local brands evoke national pride, are seen as less profit-oriented, and are often formed on deep local insights. But quality worries persist,… — Miles Young Copy Share Image
I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. "That was fun," I said. "You bet it was," said… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the… — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
Inspiration is a divine element inside our life. When we are inspired, we try to climb up the Himalayas. When we are… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
