Erik Weihenmayer Blind Rock Climber Quotes & Sayings

If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally. — Arabella Weir

I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles. — Julia Leigh

Love hurts but it can hurt worse if you allow your eyes to wander. — Kenji Inoue

People's good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass. — William Shakespeare

A blur of great magic is still just a blur. — Ken Weber

What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? Keep the commandments. — Lancelot Andrewes

Only when we start with the gospel - the most controversial point of Christian faith - are we ready to talk about who God is and how we know him. — Michael S. Horton

Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let's offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren't helping kids learn. — Barack Obama

Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven. — Joaquin Miller

HISTORY IS A bath of blood," wrote William James, — Edward O. Wilson

He grinned, a woman's downfall wrought in a simple stretch of his lips. It was her downfall, certainly, her personal undoing because she never saw the expression outside their private chambers. It was her exclusive domain and never failed to turn her knees wobbly. — Ashlyn Macnamara

The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense. — David Edward

The most likely possibility, favored by current data, is that the universe will die in Ice, not Fire. However, personally I believe that trillions of years from now, we (if we are still around) will have the technology to leave the universe, perhaps in an interdimensional life boat, and move to a warmer universe. — Michio Kaku