Inconsistencia Del Quotes & Sayings

The eight-man expedition was pinned down in a ferocious blizzard high on K2, waiting to make an assault on the summit, when a team member named Art Gilkey developed thrombophlebitis, a life-threatening altitude-induced blood clot. Realising that they would have to get Gilkey down immediately to have any hope of saving him, Schoening and the others started lowering him down the mountain's steep Abruzzi Ridge as the storm raged. At 25,000 feet, a climber named George Bell slipped and pulled four others off with him. Reflexively wrapping the rope around his shoulders and ice ax, Schoening somehow managed to single-handedly hold on to Gilkey and simultaneously arrest the slide of the five falling climbers without being pulled off the mountain himself. One of the more incredible feats in the annals of mountaineering, it was known forever after simply as The Belay. — Jon Krakauer

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town ... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety. — Henry David Thoreau

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming. — Charles Bass

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding. — Samuel Johnson

Now they were inclined to only creep instead of fly, and smile instead of laugh. — V.C. Andrews

Ironies. Hubris, pride, comes before a fall. When — Ben Elton

He was a locked box inside which tempests roiled. He was a man enshadowed by himself. — John Connolly

Music from the party throbs and echoes off the basement walls. I'm not sure how I got here, and I'm certain I don't know how Charlie ended up on the other side of the room with Guy In Touch With His Emotions. Raising a bottle to my lips, I watch as the guy uncrosses his long legs and recrosses them.
His tampon must be killing him. — Victoria Scott

No cold prudence for me. I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it." The — Jane Austen

For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You have the maturity of a 14-year-old boy!" Kennedy hisses.
"And you have the chest of one. — Emma Chase

The massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote. This is like being told you have a duty to buy a new car, but you have to choose immediately between a Ford and a Chevy. — Hunter S. Thompson