Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.
I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.
Character is the real you-“the you in you that makes you the you, you are
I have a life. A real one. And not all of it is with you.
I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.
The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences.
Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
