Ranulph Fiennes Quotes

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

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• These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

  

  Quintilian
  • Parents
  • Alone
  • Educated

• Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Finish

• You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Want
  • Passion
  • Creative

• A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • Human
  • Conservative

• An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Day

• People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • Like
  • Everyone

• Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women
  • Better
  • Discriminated

• For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • She
  • Balance
  • Successful

• Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

  

  Flume
  • Great
  • Music
  • Die

• Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.

  

  Freddie Freeman

• Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold

• When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • God
  • Book

• Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Desire
  • Human
  • Terror

• Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

  

  Eddie Condon
  • Sound
  • Jazz
  • Female

• I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.

  

  T.I.
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Use

• So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold — by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

  

  William Allen White
  • World
  • Men
  • Heart

• Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • Reason

• The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection mechanism for small-scale changes, but hardly warrants the grand extrapolation that Darwinists want. It is a huge leap going from insects developing insecticide resistance via the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random variation to the very emergence of insects in the first place by that same mechanism.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Natural
  • Evidence
  • Evolution

• It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Qualities
  • Found Out

• A moment of kindness can produce a mood of harmony between heaven and earth. Purity of heart can leave a fine example for a hundred generations.

  

  Zicheng Hong
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Kindness

• I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

  

  Ranulph Fiennes
  • Reason
  • Expeditions