Koyrema Quotes & Sayings

I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous. — Lincoln Hall

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance. — Charles Baudelaire

Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches. — Marty Rubin

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.' — Stewart Udall

The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster, she said. It was a truism of ecological biologists, and she said it the way a religious person might pray. To make sense of what she saw. To comfort herself. To give the world some sense of purpose or meaning. Species rose in an environment, and that environment changed. It was the nature of the universe, as true here as it had been on Earth. — James S.A. Corey

The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire

I think labeling someone's intelligence with a letter grade isn't a sign of their ability. — Katie Kacvinsky

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who was never vexed by the great exactions he made of her in return for the riches he might have given her if he had ever had them, and who lovingly closed his eyes upon the Marshalsea and all its blighted fruits. — Charles Dickens

It's a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable. — Olivier Martinez

Isn't it obvious?" She was a freak of nature, a monster like Joey, just less inclined to killing people. "Um, no. I mean, sure you were a tad more ferocious looking than Bambi, what with the red eyes, giant hoofs and your somewhat larger than normal size, but, hey, at least you didn't have an extra tail or something." "But I have antlers!" He — Eve Langlais

The bed smells like sex and chocolate."
He moaned. "Don't tell me that while I'm stuck in a room with six men. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

Tell me the truth. Are you angry at me because you thought I took that girl home, or is it something else? Because you're mad at me for something. — Jamie McGuire