Ed Viesturs Quotes
The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.
Quotes to Explore
-
God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
-
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
-
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
-
I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
-
I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
-
Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
-
I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
-
I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
-
If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
-
Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
-
The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
-
Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
-
Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
-
A baby was sleeping,Its mother was weeping,For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.
-
I'm one of five sisters. I'm the younger of twins, and we're the youngest of five girls, and we've always been very close. We were pretty much a gang. I take after my mother a lot in terms of personality and character. She was very positive; always looked on the bright side of things. She had a tough time of it with my dad but did her best.
-
Shah Rukh Khan started his career with television, and now he is a superstar. You can't generalise and say that TV actors can't make it to films.
-
I would love to work with Marion Cotillard... and my sister! I've never worked with Dakota before in a movie. It'd be so cool to be on screen interacting with each other one day. It will happen, I'm just not sure when.
-
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
-
We never talk about gambling around my house.
-
I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my heart leapt at the sight – row after row, shelf above shelf, floor to ceiling, a city of books. Speck turned to me and asked, Now, what shall we read first?
-
Ten thousand fools, knaves, cowards, lump'd together, Become all-wise, all-righteous, and all-mighty.
-
I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.
-
The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.
