Polar Expedition Quotes

#1. When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to know the Inuit people who were around and presumably know something about surviving in the Arctic after living there for thousands of years. Talking to people is a survival mechanism.

Tim Cahill

#2. His voice can be as cold or as warm as a stone, I realize.

Ally Condie

#3. I am just going outside and may be some time. Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12.

Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates

#4. He could burn her up alive; he could do it in a minute flat, and that's not easy to forget.

Alice Hoffman

#5. It would appear, then, that Jesus' praxis was to relate to all people, even the least, last, and lost, even notorious sinners, and allow them to be healed or helped by him without prior change of life or behavior.

Ben Witherington III

#6. For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful.

Alan Lightman

#7. After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea

Ernest Shackleton

#8. Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

Clarence Day

#9. Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.

Stephen King

#10. As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.

Ranulph Fiennes

#11. There's a shitload of insufferable know-it-all hipsters who will work for next to nothing for the privilege of condescending to customers about their musical knowledge.

Christopher Moore

#12. However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.

Alex Morrison

#13. If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.

David Jeremiah

#14. Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Orson Welles

#15. if you look hard enough you'll find what you don't want.

Janie Baskin

#16. Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren't lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre.

Timothy Ferriss