People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
You gotta grow, you gotta learn by your mistakes; You gotta die a little everyday just to try to stay awake; When… — Gerry Rafferty Copy Share Image
I'm one of those gay people who's constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to live now and not to be Ennis… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
The earth's crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The United States are a miracle: the division between two states is sometimes a river or a mountain, and sometimes it's a… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Try to imagine the helplessness you might feel if it were you that was stuck in that spot, completely exhausted and in… — Kyle Rohrig Copy Share Image
The birds that wake the morning, and those that love the shade; The winds that sweep the mountain or lull the drowsy… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
I think everything everything about my lifestyle is fairly alternative. I gather my own spring water from mountains every month. I go… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It has passed over mountain ranges and The waters of the seven seas. It has shown upon laborers in the fields, Into… — Clinton Lee Scott Copy Share Image
Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If prosecutors in the state of Utah continue on the path they are on in seeking us out, I hate to tell… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
Fred didn't have a favourite colour. He was just pleased that he could see all of the colours in the colour chart.… — Gabi Hollows Copy Share Image
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“One day an intrepid sole will climb this mountain on its east side, reaching the summit and the passage that exist between… — Steven J. Charbonneau Copy Share Image
As I drove westwards along the A8, the purple hills of the Massif des Maures were rising towards a clear bluebell sky.… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I must return to the mountains-to Yosemite. I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne, but I… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
Moon Bloodgood is so dedicated, and I was impressed with her dedication. She was put into some grueling situations - cold, freezing,… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
To rest in God's power when your own weaknesses seem to be screaming at you? That's grace! To be confident in who… — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object—the joy of living—is not in the peak… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
“All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.”My mission in life… — Thurman James Copy Share Image
“Most people hold their fantasies out of reach, as if their desires are a mountain they could never summit. They settle for… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image