Quotes About Chamonix

#1. I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude.

Robert Littell

#2. Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

Mark Twight

#3. Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary

Antonio Rossano Mendes Pontes

#4. As Christians we are not here for our own purpose at all - we are here for the purpose of God, and the two are not the same.

Oswald Chambers

#5. When you give in to aversion and anger, it's as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.

Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

#6. Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Richard Cobden

#7. I do not give a rat's front teeth about decorum right now," my father enunciated clearly and loudly. "I have a hole in my side! Have you not noticed?

Courtney Cole

#8. Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

James F. Cooper

#9. It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

Alice Sebold