To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.
The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down.
By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.
Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think!
Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.
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.
Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.
I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.
One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon.
They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.
As a member of an escorted tour, you don't even have to know the Matterhorn isn't a tuba.
I find that rock climbing is the finest, most healthiest sport in the whole world. It is much healthier than most; look at baseball, where 10 000 sit on their ass to watch a handful of players
If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?
My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.
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