Mountaineers Books Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life. — Margaret Cho

I think technology is spreading, and I think one's experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country. — Daniel Suarez

A voice said, "Climb." And he said, "How shall I climb?the mountains are so steep that I cannot climb."
The voice said, "Climb or die."
He said, "But how?I see no way up those steep ascents. This that is asked is too hard for me."
The voice said, "Climb, or perish, soul and body of theemind and spirit of thee. There is no second chance for any son of man. Climb or die."
Then he remembered that he had read in the books of the bravest climbers on the hills of the earth that sometimes they were aware of the presence of a Companion on the mountains who was not one of the earthly party of climbers.
And he rememberd a word in the Book of Mountaineers ... it heartened him,for it told him that he was created to walk in precarious places, not on the easy levels of life. — Amy Carmichael

Every day I strive to get to a place where I'm not effected by the external world, and I don't use the external world to define or tell me who I am. I strive for a state of equanimity and calm and a state of grace, so I can be free of definitions. If you are free, then you can create beautiful things. It's really just shutting out the noise. — Laurel Holloman

Gardens are a form of autobiography. — Sydney Eddison

A word meant something only between people, and life's meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form. It was the relational aspect of humans that undergirded meaning. — Paul Kalanithi

It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. — Georgie Anne Geyer

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. — Nicolaus Copernicus

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the
government does not first take from somebody else. — Adrian Rogers

I am a realist. I expect miracles. — Wayne Dyer

Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself. — Immanuel Kant

I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life. — Jonah Hill

No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is. — Brian Tracy

Love, my ass. The international language is food. — Rachel Vincent