Hoffler Creek Quotes & Sayings

Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man. — Yvon Chouinard

One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task. — Jose Antonio Primo De Rivera

I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end. And indeed he does not want my help; you do not know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of. ~Jekyll — Robert Louis Stevenson

Nora cocked her head as she studied it. It was an interesting piece. Rather large as it lay nestled in the short, dark curls. It seemed oddly harmless lying there, and she had a sudden urge to reach out and touch it. — Kinley MacGregor

You think you have it all under control. Your path so perfectly mapped out. And then one day you're driving along and bam! You get rammed from behind on the freeway. And you never saw it coming. People are like that too. Unpredictable. No matter how well you think you know somebody? How confident you are of their feelings, their reactions? They can still surprise you. And in the most devastating of ways. — Emma Chase

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything. — Charles Caleb Colton

The only way to know the truth is to witness him make choices under pressure to take one action or another in the pursuit of his desire. — Robert McKee

A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious. — Robert Johnson

tall scarlet drinks. "Steller Cherry Soda, Mr. Steller." "Thank you," Jonathan smiled in gratitude. "And for you," the tiny woman's gaze raked up and down Emma's figure. "A diet cherry soda." Emma flashed a glance at Jonathan, who was smirking at the slight. The two sat down in front of a small stage. Soon a model slinked out and showed off a suit sparkling with metal threads. — Therese Stenzel