Climbing Quotes
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One of the reasons I wrote 'The Fall' is that climbing's more than a sport, it's a way of life. When you're in it, it's all you think about.
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I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.
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Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
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Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’s in trouble, and we have to help them. We’re in reserve, so we have to go. And if we’re shelled, we’re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.
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Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.
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Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.
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What we initially conceived as a fairly simple geologic experiment on Mars ultimately turned into humanity's first real overland expedition across another planet. Spirit explored just as we would have, seeing a distant hill, climbing it, and showing us the vista from the summit. And she did it in a way that allowed everyone on Earth to be part of the adventure.
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Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity
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Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the Halloween Tree. 'You don't really know!'
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If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.
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The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything
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The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.
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Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?
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It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.
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If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept their mysteries.
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Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you went from this pretty, busy village of an island to the sea cliffs and heard nothing but the gulls and the waves.
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If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
