Quotes About Rock Climbers

#1. Rock climbers and long-distance ocean swimmers will tell you it isn't the mountain or the water that kills - it is panic

Gavin De Becker

#2. Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.

Charles Duhigg

#3. The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

Carlos Castaneda

#4. America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

Theodore White

#5. Thus one of Europe's most serious crises will be ended, and all of us, not only in Germany but those far beyond our frontiers, will then in this year for the first time really rejoice at the Christmas festival. It should for us all be a true Festival of Peace.

Adolf Hitler

#6. Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

Ellen Pompeo

#7. Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

Albert Bandura

#8. I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.

Kangana Ranaut

#9. To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

Bernadette McDonald

#10. People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

Lynda Barry

#11. Daire drew in a breath, inhaling her intoxicating scent of the sea, sun, and lavender. And might.
By the heavens, he craved her.

Donna Grant

#12. As Dennis Lindley had argued, if someone attaches a prior probability of zero the hypothesis that the moon is made of green cheese, "then the whole armies of astronauts coming back bearing green cheese cannot convince him.

Sharon Bertsch McGrayne