Jim Whittaker Quotes

#1. Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

Philip Massinger

#2. My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?

Nazim Hikmet

#3. Phil Ershler is a world class climber and guide. Sue Ershler is a first class businesswoman. But their story is not just about climbing and business. It is about two people in love who switch leads in life's hard climb. A great read - inside or outside a tent!

Jim Whittaker

#4. The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life.

Frederick Lenz

#5. I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music that really does reflect life rather than the one dimension. I have a problem in trying to make a complete trip record.

Richard Ashcroft

#6. In dire times of survival it's not uncommon for people to turn to their faith and that was also true for the men on the oil tanker Pendleton, which was cut in half by 60-foot waves during the hurricane.

Jim Whittaker

#7. The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

Yoshida Kenko

#8. Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#9. In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

Ernie Harwell

#10. Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I'm a workaholic.

Rooney Mara

#11. I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special.

Domhnall Gleeson

#12. You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

Jim Whittaker

#13. If you're not living a life on the edge you're taking up too much space! ... You learn the most when you're out of your comfort zone!

Jim Whittaker

#14. Letting go isn't giving up. It's trusting God to do whatever He has to do.

Francine Rivers

#15. Being out on the edge, with everything at risk, is where you learn and grow the most.

Jim Whittaker

#16. You learn the most when you're out on the edge.

Jim Whittaker

#17. If you're ever killed mountain climbing, then all that you've worked for is gone

Jim Whittaker

#18. I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like he can't bear to take his hand away, I don't wish I was any different.

Veronica Roth

#19. You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

Jim Whittaker

#20. Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession.

Harriet Beecher Stowe