Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren G. Harding

I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was,

Warren G. Harding

Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

Warren G. Harding

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

Richard Paul Evans

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

Richelle Mead

Of course I can climb it. I'm practically a progidy in PE," I pointed out. "The question is, can you, Mr Smoker?

River Phoenix

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

Voltaire

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

Winston Graham

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.

Yvon Chouinard

The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.

Yvon Chouinard

Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac...

Yvon Chouinard

The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.

Kelly Preston

I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this.

Lewis Thomas

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

Marcus Aurelius

Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

Stanislaw Lem

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Robert Frost

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Samina Baig

I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

Steve Fossett

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

Stephen Covey

If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.

T. S. Eliot

Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

Rick Riordan

Keep climbing,' he told himself. 'Cheeseburgers,' his stomach replied. 'Shut up,' he thought. 'With fries,' his stomach complained.

Reinhold Messner

Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

Reinhold Messner

I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

Reinhold Messner

My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.

Reinhold Messner

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

Stirling Moss

The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't.

Steve House

Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

William Arthur Ward

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live...