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Shoulders Quotes by Jon Krakauer
- Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger.…
- 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…
- 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…
More Shoulders Quotes
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his… — Clara Barton
- We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them,… — Tony Blair
- Put your shoulder to the wheel. — Aesop
- If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions. — Tom Brady
- A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything. — Harry Browne
- I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a… — Kobe Bryant
- A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. — Robert Burton
- Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited… — Smedley Butler
- Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders.… — Sholom Aleichem
- Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders,… — Stokely Carmichael
- Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is… — Fred Allen