Conrad Quote by Kresley Cole

“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth…

— Robert Harris

“He proved that people can be motivated. The mountain is there, but somebody else has already climbed it.”

— Sam Walton

“The mountains had their own time, and a wise man did not try to hurry them.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Sometimes, you got to climb the mountain alone. Much precious time is wasted convincing others how beautiful it is up there.”

— Shouvik Bhattacharya

“He contained two equal sorts of knowledge: the warm lazy knowledge that above on the mountain a blond girl in a white dress waited…

— Alasdair Gray

“had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the…

— Douglas Adams

“He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew…

— Willa Cather

“He had a feeling that somewhere in the course of her life something had happened to her, something terrible which in the end had…

— Louis Bromfield

“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this…

— John Williams

“After all, with enough faith, a person can move a mountain . . . even a mountain of her own making.”

— Rachel Held Evans

“So simply to look on anything, such as a mountain, with the love that penetrates to its essence, is to widen the domain of…

— Nan Shepherd