#mount

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. ↗

#mountains #never #over #pebbles #stumble

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

#chance #cloth #coat #conditions #contained

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ↗

— Edmund Hillary

#mountain #ourselves

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#benefit #flying #get #having #here

I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in. ↗

— Ivanka Trump

#amount #between #brothers #exercise #first

There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings. ↗

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#experience

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

O dear Himalaya...why are you so amazing, can I kiss your peak or can I just let your silence speak...O dear Himalaya... ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#himalaya #inspirational #kiss #mountains #poetry

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills. ↗

— Rick Danko

#here #i #mountains

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s. ↗