Allan interrupted the two brothers by saying that he had been out and about in the world and if there was one thing he had learned it was that the very biggest and apparently most impossible conflicts on earth were based on the dialogue: “You are s...
My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I contin...
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature...
Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach; if you’ve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that you’ve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing insi...
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment ...
Doc: Clara! Climb out here to me! Clara Clayton: I don't know if i can! Doc: You can do it; just don't look down! [Clara looks down at the churning wheels and starts leaning out] Doc: That's it! [Clara climbs over the cab and steps her high-heeled bo...
As it happens, I’m a terrible dancer. Bears are simply not made for dancing. We’re much better at sitting and sleeping and singing. But there are humans who catch bears and force us to dance. It’s agony. And there are other humans who pay to wa...
No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.
There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)
Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.
If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.
I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
The very end of me mom's road is the back entrance to Bray Head. Usually climb it when I get home.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
To me, traveling by bus is like climbing into a closet and watching 'Das Boot.'
I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand.
I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there.
If we climb this high I swear we'll never die.
Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.
