Khumbu Icefall Quotes & Sayings

Love and war are two different battlefields. — Pierce Brown

Because I want to know how it works. — Jeff Duntemann

In America the Struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word "Fascism" and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty. For they were thieves not only of wages but of honor. — Sinclair Lewis

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. — Henry David Thoreau

As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course. — Andrew Greeley

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's. — Kate Hudson

I think the research evidence on the benefits of early childhood programs for the local economy is extremely strong. However, the moral and political choice is still up to us, as citizens and as voters. — Timothy J. Bartik

Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection. — Max Anders

He'd tell me love was like the chicken pox, a thing to get through early because it could really kill you in your later years. — Wells Tower

At Last a Real Cure A woman goes to the Doctor, worried about her husband's temper. The Doctor asks: "What's the problem? The woman says: "Doctor, I don't know what to do. Every day my husband seems to lose his temper for no reason. It scares me." The Doctor says: "I have a cure for that. When it seems that your husband is getting angry, just take a glass of water and start swishing it in your mouth. Just swish and swish but don't swallow it until he either leaves the room or goes to bed and is asleep." Two weeks later the woman comes back to the doctor looking fresh and reborn. The woman says: "Doctor that was a brilliant idea! Every time my husband started losing it, I swished with water. I swished and swished, and he calmed right down! How does a glass of water do that?" The Doctor says: "The water itself does nothing. It's keeping your mouth shut that does the trick... — Steve Mihaly

Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal of understanding how the world works. It is for this reason that playing fast and loose with the truth is a very serious matter. — Carl Sagan

It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff. — Lewis Black

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything. — Carla Bley

The Carpet was full of life, but it did not know it was alive. It could be, but it could not think. It did not even know what it was. And so from the dust came us, the Carpet People. We gave the Carpet its name, and named the creatures, and the weaving was complete. — Terry Pratchett

Duty cannot exist without faith. — Benjamin Disraeli