Quotes About Avalanches

#1. Most people hold their fantasies out of reach, as if their desires are a mountain they could never summit. They settle for living at the base of the mountain instead. There aren't as many obstacles, or avalanches, or unexpected delays. But they'll never be able to see the view from the top.

Katie Kacvinsky

#2. We slid down on our behinds, little avalanches of sand pouring around our feet and down our pants.

Ransom Riggs

#3. I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up
I stand on mountain tops believing
that avalanches will teach me to let go
I know
nothing
but I am here to learn.

Shane Koyczan

#4. Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

Victor Hugo

#5. What do you think the most gruelin' thing about evolution is?" "I don't know. Tell me," I said. "It's being unable to pick and choose. Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late." I

Haruki Murakami

#6. I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking.

Aron Ralston

#7. The backcountry signs say stuff like BEYOND THIS POINT IS A HIGH RISK AREA, WHICH HAS MANY HAZARDS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, AVALANCHES, CLIFFS, AND HIDDEN OBSTACLES, YOU MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COST OF YOUR RESCUE and I think, um, no thanks. I choose life.

Cynthia Hand

#8. Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free, and endless avalanches of abundance are poured out upon me, under grace in perfect ways.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#9. All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#10. The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone. The broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

William L. Shirer

#11. We've survived raging rivers, men with spears, dehydration, the Triggers, oceanic storms, jellyfish stings, Pandora Wars, hypothermia, avalanches. We've come out the other side alive and bitter.
We want the Cure.
And we want revenge.

Victoria Scott

#12. I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.

Karen Traviss

#13. Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late.

Haruki Murakami

#14. God's wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!

Tony Robbins

#15. within the four walls of avalanches, I call out to Yeti.
Stomping my feet for warmth
on the snow
the snow eternal.

Wislawa Szymborska

#16. God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

John Muir

#17. Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

John Piper

#18. People come to Portland, many of them for the quality of life. They love the physical space here. And yet every year, people climbing the mountain get killed by avalanches.

Chelsea Cain

#19. AND NOW THERE REMAINS ONLY ONE FINAL QUESTION, he said. He raised his hands, and seemed to grow. Light flared in his eye sockets. When he spoke next, avalanches fell in the mountains. HAVE YOU BEEN NAUGHTY ... OR NICE? HO. HO. HO.

Terry Pratchett

#20. You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.

David Gerrold

#21. When you're wearing the Avalanche logo, you battle.

Patrick Roy

#22. When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it.

Rafael Nadal

#23. As if hands were enough
To hold an avalanche off.

Thom Gunn

#24. Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.

Neal A. Maxwell

#25. Once you start turning over rocks and reaching out to help people, there's a whole avalanche coming right behind it. And it seems never-ending. But when you see the fruits of your labor, you feel like it's possible.

Madonna Ciccone

#26. God cannot save them from fools.

John Muir

#27. Say this is what the pain made of you:
an open, open, open road,
an avalanche of feel it all.

Andrea Gibson

#28. Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche

Bob Goff

#29. I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small.

Channing Tatum

#30. I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.

Erik Weihenmayer

#31. There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.

Leonard Ravenhill

#32. All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#33. I aint know the police was from Babylon And I aint know Im cold just like an avalanche

Nicki Minaj