Top 27 Garrard Quotes
#1. And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#2. Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.
Leonard Bishop
#3. Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#4. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#5. For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.
Donna Tartt
#7. Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#8. Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.
Rachel Maddow
#9. I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, and walk in different shoes. I like change. I like challenge.
Emily Bett Rickards
#10. Accept yourself: be yourself. That seems a good rule. But which self? Even the simplest of us are complicated enough.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#11. He's stronger than this. He's always been stronger ... (Vane)
Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm. (Carson)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#12. I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#13. Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion.
John Piper
#15. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#16. For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#17. In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#18. I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
David Hockney
#19. The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#20. The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#21. There is a mystery in this, a minor apocalypse somewhere between what these two men once knew of themselves- a holding on to something that, in turn, refused to let them go- and I long to know it, like the old prophets.
Garrard Conley
#22. And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
#23. In life the turn coat (traitor) is never trustworthy by either side. The one that he betrayed will hate him and the other that benefited from his treachery will fear him. After all what is going to stop the "turn coat" from betraying him as well.
Artur Pawlowski
#24. Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
John Ralston Saul
#25. Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.
Patti Davis
#26. I came to therapy thinking that my sexuality didn't matter, but it turned out that every part of my personality was intimately connected. Cutting one piece damaged the rest.
Garrard Conley
#27. There's no straighter road to success than exceeding expectations one day at a time.
Robin Crow
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