Alan Hinkes Quotes

#1. To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#2. To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

John Arbuthnot

#3. The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling ... It is only death that has stopped many mountaineers from achieving the full tally of 14.

Alan Hinkes

#4. With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.

T. S. Eliot

#5. As one veteran Russian pilot dryly told me:We have to be very careful flying in the clouds. Around here they are full of rocks.

Alan Hinkes

#6. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

Oscar Wilde

#7. JUSTICE: I'm a woman, d*mmit. I do what I want, and I refuse to consider the consequences.

Bijou Hunter

#8. We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can't feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound - that of glass breaking - until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.

Ann Aguirre

#9. In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.

John Kuypers