Ranulph Quotes & Sayings

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills. — Ranulph Fiennes

Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life. — Barbara Goldsmith

Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable! — Edwin Louis Cole

I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes. — Teju Cole

I can't count the number of people I've talked to over the course of my career who have said to me that the thing that they most regret is the one time they did something just for the money. — Tavis Smiley

The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby
reconvened. — Winnie Ewing

No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife. — Ranulph Fiennes

When the Bible offends you, be encouraged that it offends everyone at some point. Consider the responsibility of the Bible. It must speak the truth to every culture through every era of history. I believe that there has never been a culture on earth that has not been offended by the Bible on some issue. What offends one group could be common sense to another and vice versa. Some cultures are offended that God would judge people for their sin. Some cry out to God to judge people because of sin. There are some cultures that are appalled at how God would forgive people no matter what they have done. For other cultures, that kind of forgiveness is expected of God. — Jon Morrison

There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world. — Michael Palin

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is — Michel De Montaigne

The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth — Ranulph Fiennes

People who go to the polar regions are statistically less likely to die than salesmen who drive on motorways in England. — Ranulph Fiennes

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There is no bad weather, only inappropriate clothing. — Ranulph Fiennes

Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic. — Ranulph Fiennes

It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies. — Ranulph Fiennes

While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb. — Ranulph Fiennes

As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse. — Ranulph Fiennes

As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive. — LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

You can never lose what you have offered to Christ. — Elisabeth Elliot

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records. — Norman Cook

Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me. — Dave Morin

Nietzsche, in a rare moment of deep stillness, wrote, For happiness, how little suffices for happiness! ... the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance - little maketh up the best happiness. Be still. — Eckhart Tolle

Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character. — Ranulph Fiennes

Was it possible that Ranulph, too, was a real person, a person inside whose mind things happened? He had thought that he himself was the only real person in a field of human flowers. For Master Nathaniel that was a moment of surprise, triumph, tenderness, alarm. — Hope Mirrlees

Maybe it was because we were both actors. Maybe it was just because of who we were. But I could see in her eyes that she knew, too. This was the end of a chapter.
Cade — Cora Carmack

He says to me, Ranulph, he says ... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made of the present, and that the present is always here. — Hope Mirrlees