Aamot Ski Quotes & Sayings

All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values. — Aldo Leopold

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. — William Shakespeare

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government. — Mitt Romney

[French Revolution rejected] the sacred foundation both of history and of the state. History was no longer measured on the basis of an idea of God that had preceded it and given it shape. The state came to be understood in purely secular terms, based on rationalism and the will of citizens.
The secular state arose for the first time, abandoning and excluding any divine guarantee or legitimation of the political element as a mythological vision of the world and declaring that God is a private question that does not belong to the public sphere or to the democratic formation of the public will. Public life was now considered the realm of reason alone, which had no place for a seemingly unknowable God. From this perspective, religion and faith in God belonged to the realm of sentiment, not of reason. God and His will therefore ceased to be relevant to public life. — Pope Benedict XVI

I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt. — Karl Pilkington

Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you. — Charlotte Bronte

I simply must say, as crass as we are conditioned by a troubled society to regard the word, I am a firm believer in the comparative merits of the word 'fuck. — David Foster Wallace

Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order. — Herman Melville

Talk to me. I'll believe anything. — Albert Goldbarth

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure. — John Calvin

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. — Carol Ann Duffy