Great Mountaineering Quotes

#1. I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

Edmund Hillary

#2. Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.

An Abundance Of Katherines By John Green

#3. Oh, for the love of baby humans everywhere, you're an idiot.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#4. All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

Rumi

#5. People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

Helen Keller

#6. A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. What if I was the sexual equivalent of popcorn? Suitable for light snacking only?

Rachel Vincent

#8. Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

Empedocles

#9. To you," he said, "I surrender my heart and soul."
She rolled her eyes. "Very romantic, considering you have neither.

Sarah Beth Durst

#10. They had a relaxed look about them, appropriate for people going to a peaceful demonstration sanctioned by the authorities.

Naguib Mahfouz

#11. He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.

Jeffrey Rasley

#12. Good things don't happen to "good people"; good things happen to happy people.

Vivian Amis

#13. No one can ever really come in, and when it's time to let them, we don't know how.

Ally Condie

#14. Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

Michelle Stuart

#15. The woman had won. In the end, it seemed they always did.

Larry McMurtry