#limb

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. ↗

— George Eliot

#cases #climb #hatred #inflict #injuries

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#climb #figure #give #go #how

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#craving #men #mountain #new #restless

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. ↗

— Martin Luther

#branch #climb #each #fall #first

I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#dream #everest #i #like #lots

Have you ever wondered what language they speak in Limbo? ↗

— Lee T. Gallup

#humor #inspirational #limbo #purgatory #inspirational

I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#climbing #into-the-wild #krakauer #change

White people love rock climbing almost more than they love camping. This is because the activity affords them the opportunity to be outside, to use a carabiner for something other than their keys, and to purchase a whole new set of expensive activity-specific clothing and accessories. ↗

— Christian Lander

#recreation #rock-climbing #white-people #love

He pictures amputated human arms flopping like fish down the center of the road; syringes floating on beds of liposuctioned fat; gelatinous human eyeballs wiggling merrily as they roll down the highway; and so on. He could imagine other such grotesque stuff, but chooses not to. ↗

— Dan Chaon

#grotesque #limbs #imagination

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him! ↗

— Richard Harris Barham

#dim #each #eyes #grammar #heedless