Eric Shipton Quotes
Only an easy scramble remained and we were there, on the hitherto untrodden summit of Nelion.Eric Shipton
Quotes to Explore
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Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.
Clarence Day -
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle -
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
Honore de Balzac -
Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
Helen Keller -
When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth.
Amanda Knox -
If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.
Brennan Manning
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I told the team before the game they didn't quite seem to have the passion and intensity you need to have every time you step on the field. That's something this team is usually good at. That concerns me a little bit.
Brian Billick -
I have a great band and a great crew and once you’ve done this for as long as I have every time you go on tour you have this template to work with where you have a thousand things to do to get out on the road.
Jeff Waters Annihilator -
When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.
Mohammad Azharuddin -
Who is sitting in that empty chair?
Eugene Ormandy -
For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
Kofi Annan has already been instrumental in pushing forward that debate in the United Nations. I firmly support his efforts. A successful United Nations Summit next week presents the international community with a real opportunity to secure the necessary change.
Jack Straw
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Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases
Barbara Taylor Bradford -
President Obama and Vladimir Putin are both in China attending the same economic summit. Obama saw Putin and said, 'After those midterms, it's nice to finally see a friendly face.'
Conan O'Brien -
President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.
Conan O'Brien -
Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.
Sigmund Freud -
I'm looking for someone to establish himself as our quarterback.
Joe Gibbs -
Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
Manish Dayal