Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

Reinhold Messner

My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does not disturb me in the slightest.

Reinhold Messner

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

Warren G. Harding

Actually, we're just glorified flagpole sitters.

Warren G. Harding

As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.

Warren G. Harding

I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was,

Warren G. Harding

Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

Warren G. Harding

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

Yvon Chouinard

Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac...

Samuel Rogers

Then never less alone than when alone.

Samuel Johnson

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

Salvatore Quasimodo

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

Nelson Mandela

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.

Oswald Chambers

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

Pablo Picasso

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

Ovid

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love tranquil solitude.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love all waste and solitary places.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Keith Waterhouse

Should not the Society of Indexers be know as Indexers, Society of, The?

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Stokely Carmichael

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

Victor Hugo

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!