Edmund Hillary Quotes

I am hell-bent for the South Pole - God willing and crevasses permitting.

Edmund Hillary

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• Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Different
  • Society

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Help
  • Know
  • Die

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Always

• I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • God
  • Night

• I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • God
  • America
  • Doubt

• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • God
  • Believe
  • Religion

• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Heart
  • Church

• Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Language

• I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • God
  • Sure

• A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Book
  • First
  • Concern

• Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Age
  • Success

• Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • God
  • Law
  • Will

• God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • People
  • God
  • Rest

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• Funnily enough, Daihatsu are one of the better interior stylists. God knows how they do it.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • God

• There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Political
  • Theatre

• The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I’m thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Why

• I'm a first-born child of a Chinese immigrant family, I grew up on the East Coast. And I have to admit, I did not grow up around technology.

  

  Aileen Lee
  • Up
  • Family
  • Technology

• I am hell-bent for the South Pole - God willing and crevasses permitting.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • God