Maurice Herzog Annapurna Quotes

#1. One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

George E.P. Box

#3. Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.

Edward Furlong

#4. It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

Will Rogers

#5. It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

Tom Stoppard

#6. 'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.

Maurice Herzog

#7. The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.

Gene Spafford

#8. But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.

Samuel Beckett

#9. A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.

Tom Stoppard

#10. My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Franz Kafka

#11. The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

Sheri L. Dew

#12. Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

Alfred A. Montapert

#13. We seek to stay present, even as the ghosts attempt to draw us away.

Patti Smith

#14. I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.

Sally Mann

#15. Hate's ultimate victory is to make us dependent on it.

Marty Rubin

#16. Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn