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One Quotes by Jon Krakauer
- Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a…
- In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team.
- Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
- When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him…
- Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a…
- Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.
- I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things that sustain our…
- The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the air is so…
- Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
- Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most…
- My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the…
- Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle