May Quote by Cyrano de Bergerac Download Open image “I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.” — Cyrano de Bergerac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare May
We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big… — Doug Scott Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building. — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If I wished to do something, even if I couldn't find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to fly or… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and their contests determine the true triumph or defeat of nations. One scholar is matched with another; one creative mind with another; and one judicious temperament with his counterpart. A victory won on that field counts… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share
She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature - a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share
We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
In it he proves that all things are true and states how the truths of all contradictions may be reconciled physically, such as for example that white is black and black is white; that one can be and not be at the same time; that there can be hills without valleys; that nothingness is something and that everything, which is,… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share
Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out of my… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
“You marvel that this matter, shuffled pell-mell at the whim of Chance, could have made a man, seeing that so much was needed for… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn… — Jay Asher Copy Share
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
