#climb

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#bit #cannot #climb #end #followed

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cancer #climbing #doctors #early #elbow

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#cage #claws #climbed #face #her

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#ambitious #build #climb #confirmed #division

I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while. ↗

— Kate Hudson

#climb #done #every #fun #i

I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building. ↗

— Kate Hudson

#building #climb #heights #i #i can

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? ↗

— James Beattie

#ah #climb #fame #hard #how

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#am #any #bound #climbed #day

The higher one climbs the lonelier one is. ↗

— Mary Barnett Gilson

#higher #lonelier

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#around #buildings #climbing #had #i