Unroped Quotes

#1. I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & does not mean poor training, but only a strong-headedness.

William Shockley

#2. Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!

Hannah More

#3. I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.

Milarepa

#5. When you take into account ebooks and Kindles and such, we're doing pretty good.

Deborah Meyler

#6. There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

Conrad Hilton

#7. Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. I used to wear my mom's Wayfarers. When the people of Ray Ban noticed that, they sent me a box full of sunglasses, two and a half years ago. Now they're all gone. They've disappeared during trips, many were also stolen from me, the rest I lost again and again. Now I have only one pair left.

Robert Pattinson

#9. Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.

Ouida

#10. Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

Charles Dickens

#11. What skill am I teaching my child to develop independence?

Rebecca Branstetter

#12. When you don't have your work clearly defined, there can never be any finish point.

Matt Perman

#13. Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide

Bernard Kelvin Clive