Quotes About The Lonely Mountain

#1. In two days going they rowed right up the Long Lake and passed out into the River Running, and now they could all see the Lonely Mountain towering grim and tall before them. The stream was strong and their going slow.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. She was tempted to ask if they were journeying with a hobbit to reclaim the Lonely Mountain.

Shannon Messenger

#3. This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

Terence

#4. In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.

David Smith

#5. The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain here Four or five centuries, While the stars go over the lonely ocean.

Robinson Jeffers

#6. The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.

Richard Russo

#7. All the birds have flown up and gone; A lonely cloud floats leisurely by. We never tire of looking at each other - Only the mountain and I.

Li Bai

#8. For a real knight, rescuing maidens would be an everyday event."
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"Perhaps a true knight saves himself for the right maiden

Karen Hawkins

#9. God makes everything better.

Iris Long

#10. The deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

Alice Foote MacDougall

#11. The Empire State, a lonely dinosaur, rose sadly at midtown, highest tower, tallest mountain, longest road, King Kong's eyrie, meant to moor airships, alas.

Vincent Scully

#12. 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life.

Tim Blake Nelson

#13. If I enter into your dream and say, "wake up!" If you awaken, then the dream will vanish. We'll be right where we always were and always will be, everywhere and nowhere - eternally perfect, infinite awareness.

Frederick Lenz

#14. I know deep hurt. But I also know deep hope. Sometimes God's power is shown as much in preventing things as it is in making them happen. We may never know why. But we can always know and trust the Who.

Lysa TerKeurst

#15. Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.

Clayton Christensen

#16. I have a Rolex, but no diamonds. Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. I don't even have pierced ears - I'm not into that; it's too much.

ASAP Rocky

#17. He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Alfred The Great

#18. I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

Khalil Gibran

#19. Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

Austin O'Malley

#20. Locate things that motivate you and surround yourself with people that inspire you

Sunday Adelaja

#21. Actual places, landscapes that exist[ed] simultaneously in both physical and metaphysical space ... true geographical refugia, verdant valleys dominated by protective mountain deities where people could seek solace as lonely pilgrims, or flee violence as a community in time of war.

Wade Davis