Chris Bonington Quotes
I look at climbing not so much as standing on the top as seeing the other side. There are always other horizons in front of you, other horizons to go beyond and that's what I like about climbing.

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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.
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I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.
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I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.
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I saw the Kino print of 'The Man From Beyond,' but apparently a superior new print has been produced by Restored Serials. Maybe a few snippets of missing footage will close up some of the plot holes, but I have my doubts.
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The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.
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Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.
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Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.
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Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man.
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The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.
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The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.
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Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."
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When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
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Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God, and the grace of the King...
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When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that.
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Charity knew she had to begin looking for a job soon. Definitely tomorrow, or the next day. Or perhaps the day after that. Charity didn't believe in procrastination. She just needed to plan her strategy. She was sound asleep on the sofa when Lady Margaret got back from London.
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In the area of field apps, Collector for ArcGIS is great, but where do you go? There's a navigator app. And then what do you do when you get there? There's a workforce app. So all of these apps work hand-in-hand to support field workers.
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If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.
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I look at climbing not so much as standing on the top as seeing the other side. There are always other horizons in front of you, other horizons to go beyond and that's what I like about climbing.