Mountain Hikes Quotes

#1. Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

Paul D. Boyer

#2. He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity ... hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.

Baruch Spinoza

#3. As a boy, I remember my father telling me a bedtime story about the day my grandfather was decapitated.

Justin Bienvenue

#4. My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

Jack Dreyfus

#5. We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.

Malcolm Gladwell

#6. I shall not grow conservative with age.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#7. It looks like you managed to build your own pack, anyway, my dear. A parasol protectorate, perhaps one might say.

Gail Carriger

#8. Never be ruled by possessions, and never, ever make wealth more important to you than your self-respect and your dignity. - Lady Taylor

Julie Garwood

#9. Daryl Dixon: [about Merle] Toughest asshole I ever met, my brother. Feed him a hammer, he'd crap out nails.

The Walking Dead

#10. If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity.

Alex Bogusky

#11. Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs.

Corrine Brown