Mount Quotes
272 quotes by 216 authors
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We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I…
— Diane Ackerman
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The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go…
— Oswald Chambers
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I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to…
— Stephen King
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I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack.
— Richelle Mead
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The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally…
— Harry S. Truman
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I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she'd given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time,…
— Rick Riordan
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The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
— Stanley Hauerwas
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
— Richard Dawkins
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Fetch Constantine, or I’ll make boots out of your hide, bear. (Arcadian Sentinel) Don’t touch me, or I’ll mount your jewels to the wall over…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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God has revealed to me that only the Paramatman, whom the Vedas describe as the Pure Soul, is as immutable as Mount Sumeru, unattached, and…
— Ramakrishna
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If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It wasn’t a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek) No offense, but you’d have to fall of Mount Everest to have those kinds of wounds.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn’t mean I have any intention of trying to climb it
— Jeaniene Frost
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How will we get back up?" I worried. "I have a different route in mind for our return trip." "Does it involve stairs?" I asked…
— Karen Marie Moning
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But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on…
— Sarah Vowell
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For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, the demand that…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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What you just had is nothing compared to what I want to do to you. I want my head between your legs so I can…
— J R Ward
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Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.
— Bob Dylan
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Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and…
— Philip Yancey
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Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I…
— George R. R. Martin
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