Mountainous Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel. — Peter Kreeft
Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space… — Edward Abbey
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations. — Edward Sapir
We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that… — Martin Luther
It's a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The mountainous… — Bosley Crowther
The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself composite,… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting. — Rumi
One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear.… — Rajneesh
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. — H P Lovecraft
There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing… — Marcel Proust
Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of… — Douglas Adams
It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain… — Terry Pratchett
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up… — May Sarton
A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan. — Iqbal Quadir
Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence. — James Hogg
It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat… — Margaret Sanger

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