Alpinisti Italiani Quotes & Sayings

You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it. — Don King

Fantasy imposes order on the universe. Or, at least, it superimposes order on the universe. And it is a human order. Reality tells us that we exist for a brief, beleaguered span in a cold infinity; fantasy tells us that the figures in the foreground are important. Fantasy peoples the alien Outside, and it doesn't matter a whole lot if it peoples it with good guys or bad guys. Putting 'Hy-Brasil' on the map is a step in the right direction, but if you can't manage that, then 'Here Be Dragons is better than nothing. Better than the void. — Terry Pratchett

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere. — Henry Ward Beecher

You drink whisky, hon?" he asked Mollie.
"Uh, not really."
"Well, you do now." He poured a splash of amber liquid into two crystal glasses and brought one to her before holding up his own glass.
"What are we toasting to?" he asked.
"To men being shits," Riley said.
He gave his wife a look. "I'm not drinking my own whisky to that. — Lauren Layne

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved. — Christopher Hitchens

I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money. — Gavin MacLeod

The stars shone down on her like flowers made of light, and their beauty hurt her weary heart. — Cornelia Funke

The test of glory and wealth is the hardest to pass — Sunday Adelaja

And love? I am still in love with her. Not a day breaks but that I think of her, and when the dogwood turns red in winter I stretch out my hands and imagine her hair.

I am in love with her; not a fantasy or a myth or a creature of my own making.

Her. A person who is not me. I invented Bonaparte as much as he invented himself.

My passion for her, even though she could never return it, showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love.

The one is about you, the other about someone else. — Jeanette Winterson

She was practically an invalid ever after I could remember her, but used what strength she had in lavish care upon me and my sister, who was three years younger. There was a touch of mysticism and poetry in her nature which made her love to gaze at the purple sunsets and watch the evening stars. Whatever was grand and beautiful in form and color attracted her. It seemed as though the rich green tints of the foliage and the blossoms of the flowers came for her in the springtime, and in the autumn it was for her that the mountain sides were struck with crimson and with gold. — Calvin Coolidge

I would like to say my hair turned white
overnight, but it didn't.
Instead it was my heart;
bleached out like meat in water. — Margaret Atwood

The words slipped out like a bubble, too fragile to resist the destruction of air. It was like a glass smashing against a wall. — Dawn Kurtagich