Top 100 Caldwell Quotes
#2. Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.
Tommy Caldwell
#3. We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.
Sarah Caldwell
#4. My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.
Gail Caldwell
#5. I always heard 'whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger' growing up. How so very foolish. In fact, what doesn't kill you is only delaying the inevitable.
Jeremy Caldwell
#6. If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
Sarah Caldwell
#7. Like the color of one's skin, the shape of one's genitals is a neutral biological fact that acquires meaning from society, which prides or devalues certain biological differences.
Richard Caldwell
#8. I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease.
Caldwell Esselstyn
#9. I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing.
Tommy Caldwell
#10. After Father died, she told me that it felt strange to have hands anymore, what with no one to hold them.
Ian Caldwell
#12. To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.
Erskine Caldwell
#13. In writing Simon's stories, I have written myself out of my own life.
K.J. Charles
#14. We both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.
Ian Caldwell
#15. If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.
Taylor Caldwell
#16. Tawny shrugged. "I was overreacting. Typical big sister move. He explained why he did it, and it makes sense, in a slightly twisted way. He's not a bad guy. He's just a jerk. But a nice one."
"That doesn't make any sense."
"Men rarely do.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#17. A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.
Ian Caldwell
#20. Near the end I asked him one night in the hospital corridor what he thought was happening, and he said, "Tell her everything you haven't said," and I smiled with relief. "There's nothing," I said. "I've already told her everything.
Gail Caldwell
#21. Boia is trying to force Simon to talk. Nowak is trying to keep the exhibit a secret.
Ian Caldwell
#23. Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
Sarah Caldwell
#24. I think writing is like ministry. You get this call and you run before accepting it. If you run right to it, there's a good chance you were not called.
Robin Caldwell
#25. His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps in evidence, errors in interpretation, in objects, far from his own.
Ian Caldwell
#26. We all feel inadequate very often. It's only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one's emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.
Taylor Caldwell
#28. The territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.
Gail Caldwell
#29. One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
Taylor Caldwell
#30. If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
Taylor Caldwell
#31. We need imperfection in our relationships, else we would die from the thickness of intimacy.
Gail Caldwell
#32. Age did not have to prohibit or inhibit a woman's ability to make money or a living. Age did not diminish a woman's usefulness as a self-employed person or entrepreneur. Age did not limit the ways in which a woman made money through self-employment or entrepreneurship.
Robin Caldwell
#33. If you don't own your grunt work, can you really say you've done the climb?
Tommy Caldwell
#34. The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for the next thing - the need to accomplish and explore are just woven into the fabric of who I am.
Tommy Caldwell
#35. El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.
Tommy Caldwell
#36. Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.
Ian Caldwell
#37. Life has taught this boy to string nets beneath his hopes.
Ian Caldwell
#38. Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.
Caldwell Esselstyn
#39. It's a funny thing about love: you don't need to have it returned to love somebody. Loving's enough.
A Prologue to Love
Taylor Caldwell
#41. So this is how my friend died. Because I taught him how to read the gospels. And because he had the bravery to speak out about what they revealed.
Ian Caldwell
#43. Faith in Christ is a one-time decision that leads to a lifetime of growth.
Stephen Caldwell
#44. The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's,
Taylor Caldwell
#45. I thought on that, but there just ain't no way around the fact that some folks need killing.
C. Hoyt Caldwell
#46. Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.
Tommy Caldwell
#47. One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.
Christopher Caldwell
#49. On the way back to Berea College, Deborah and William caught up on events, most of the time both talking at once. Mr. Caldwell listened and smiled, perhaps remembering his youth.
William Roy Pipes
#50. You can't change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn't make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We don't get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.
Gail Caldwell
#51. You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you ...
Erskine Caldwell
#52. The other thing I know now, is that we survive grief merely and surely by outlasting it. The ongoing fact of the narrative eclipses the heartbreak within. A deal that seems to be the price we pay for getting to hold on to our beloved dead.
Gail Caldwell
#53. Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.
Taylor Caldwell
#54. A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
Taylor Caldwell
#55. People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
Taylor Caldwell
#56. Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.
Taylor Caldwell
#57. MOUNTAINS OF CALDWELL, NEW YORK, PRESENT DAY T
J.R. Ward
#58. Most beings only saw the beauty of a smoothed stone and thought nothing of the shape it might once have held or of the ceaseless pressure that formed it. Perhaps that was enough, though, for the rock to bear its own hardship in silence and share only with others what they wanted to see.
Dallas E. Caldwell
#59. I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
Taylor Caldwell
#60. Memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.
Gail Caldwell
#61. I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.
Erskine Caldwell
#62. I think lots of things, Denny, and I dismiss nothing. When I know, then I'll act.
Jack Caldwell
#63. The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.
Ian Caldwell
#64. Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little.
Kimberly Caldwell
#67. I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell
#69. The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.
Christopher Caldwell
#71. Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.
Sarah Caldwell
#72. A man's judged by what he is and not what he was.
Jack Caldwell
#73. The real trick is to let life, with all it's ordinary missteps and regrets, be consistently more mysterious and alluring then it's end.
Gail Caldwell
#74. The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
Philip Caldwell
#75. I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.
Gail Caldwell
#77. Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living ...
Taylor Caldwell
#78. Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.
Christopher Caldwell
#80. Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.
Taylor Caldwell
#83. The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
Gail Caldwell
#85. The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to walk through fear and come out scorched but still breathing.
Gail Caldwell
#87. Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.
Ian Caldwell
#89. Never mix books and bed. In the spectrum of excitement, sex & thought were on opposite ends. Both to be enjoyed, but never at the same time.
Ian Caldwell
#90. For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer. These days, it seems like everything is padded and comes with warning labels.
Tommy Caldwell
#91. I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
Taylor Caldwell
#92. If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
Taylor Caldwell
#93. I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.
Kimberly Caldwell
#94. I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season.
Sarah Caldwell
#95. The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.
Taylor Caldwell
#96. Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.
Sarah Caldwell
#97. Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
Taylor Caldwell
#98. Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Taylor Caldwell
#100. A strange thing has happened as I've aged; I have felt my parents' love for me more strongly every year.
Bo Caldwell
