Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

Chinua Achebe

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in trouble and then the novel stops.

Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership,

Chief Joseph

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

David Tang

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

Chad Everett

If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

Edith Stein

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

Dean Acheson

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles.

Edmund Hillary

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

Anatoli Boukreev

I respect Everest very much.

Abdul Latif

To my knowledge, the Malaysians who have seen Everest have only seen its South Face. We may have been the first Malaysians to have reached the North Face,

Edmund Hillary

As far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him how.

Jon Krakauer

The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.

Michael Ward

Every mountain has at least one way up it, ... We reckoned there must be a route up Everest from Nepal.

Liu Qi

The torch will also go to the top of Mount Everest as it is known in the west. This has never been done before.

Gordon Janow

For many climbers, Everest is usually a one-time deal,

Joe Carnahan

If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.

Alain Robert

Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.

Masayoshi Okamoto

When the market climbs this high, profit-taking is completely natural,

Steve Truglia

Yakima Canutt was famously John Wayne's stunt double, and in the Western movie 'Stagecoach,' there is a fantastic scene where there are some horses thundering along, pulling a carriage. He climbs out onto the horses and drops down underneath them, so he's being dragged along, and then he lets go.

Alex Honnold

Music can be useful during training to help get you psyched, and I still listen to music on easy climbs or in the gym. But during cutting-edge solos or really hard climbs, I unplug. There shouldn't be a need for extra motivation on big days, be it music or anything else. It should come from within.

Angela Davis

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

John Oxenham

To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.

Ruth Cisero

He's a cat's cat, he climbs trees and sits on people's roofs but now he's forced to be in the house all the time.

Jacob Bronowski

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

Michael Cadnum

When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience.