Alpinism Mountaineering Quotes & Sayings

For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don't deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty. — Walter Bonatti

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love. — Thomas Paine

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction. — Ambrose Bierce

You can always regain readers that you lost from not updating enough. But it's not so easy to regain them if they've been turned off by crumby, half-ass posts. — Jonah Jones

Dare to believe for thy will be done! — Vincent Casale

Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it seeks to ban. — Andrew Ryan

People say, 'Why is he bored with her?' Because he's a human being, that's why; same way his wife is bored with him. That is marriage - anything that's supposed to be forever, your going to get bored with it. And there is nothing wrong with it, so don't take it personal; if you are with somebody for ten years and they are not bored with you? Then something is wrong with them. — Chris Rock

I've always been fascinated by science - anatomy, quantum physics, space and time theory. I don't understand these things, but the mystery is a part of what attracts me to them. That the world I live in now is complex beyond my understanding only encourages me to believe that there are wild possibilities in creation beyond even the things of this dimension of time and space. If this universe has alternate dimensions outside of our understanding, isn't it possible that we might exist in a life beyond this one, in another kind of dimension that is fuller and more alive than the one we know? — Bethany Pierce

Give your life a destination. — Debasish Mridha

If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth. — Margaret Weis

watch William's beloved sport, but to him televised football was no more interesting, or even narratively intelligible, than a flea circus, so he got up and went to the kitchenette to do the other stations of the Yuletide cross. — Garth Risk Hallberg

He had been trussed up like a chicken in his own breeches. — Ted Rabinowitz

Tenderness fills her. Here it is, the moon that has followed her everywhere through her childhood ... Here is the moon - dear, distant companion - yet now intimately near and patient. — Carrie Brown

The universal religion - contempt for women. — Andrea Dworkin

What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve? — Peter Drucker

I lost both my parents young - but I have felt their presence throughout my life. — Roma Downey