Quotes About Roald Amundsen

#1. Roald Amundsen says that 'Adventure is just bad planning.' In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. Adventure is just bad planning.

Roald Amundsen

#3. The English have loudly and openly told the world that skis and dogs are unusable in these regions and that fur clothes are rubbish. We shall see - we shall see.

Roald Amundsen

#4. She was mystified by people who were always hurrying things along. A time of waiting offered moments, minutes, sometimes even hours of peace, of rest, during which, as a rule, she was alone with herself.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#5. A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

Roald Amundsen

#6. The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken.

Roald Amundsen

#7. If something - if you have a good rapport then you're friends and you're offered projects together or you discover stories together. Jennifer and I discovered this story together, and it was evident to us we would only do it with each other.

David O. Russell

#8. I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.

Elizabeth Taylor

#9. Look at me! I'm sweet and lovable!

Donald Rumsfeld

#10. I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Lord Chesterfield

#11. No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove it.

Karl Popper

#12. They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

Winston Churchill

#13. People should be highly sceptical of anyone's including their own, ability to predict the future, and instead pursue strategies that can survive whatever may occur.

Seth Klarman

#14. Books do not age as you or I do, they will speak on to generations we will never see.

Corrie Ten Boom

#15. We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

Roald Amundsen

#16. Many lands saw Zarathustra, and many peoples: no greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than the creations of the loving ones - "good" and "bad" are they called.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.

Roald Amundsen

#18. Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it

Roald Amundsen

#19. The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.

Roald Amundsen

#20. I was a chief justice. And before that, I was a district court judge, handled major felonies, including capital murder cases; and I handled major civil litigation.

Louie Gohmert

#21. Want to do something noble and courageous while you're on this Earth treat the mentally ill like they have some worth.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#22. With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.

Roald Amundsen

#23. One of them says, 'Why did they do it?'
And the other answers, 'Because they could.'
That is the only answer there ever is.

Naomi Alderman