#mount

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit. ↗

— Ron Silver

#amount #background #bit #education #educational

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#become #lake #landscape #mountains #real

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#arrived #between #black #calm #could

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need. ↗

— Peter Singer

#amount #available #connection #dwarfs #easier

Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#danger #downturn #downward #give #history

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching. ↗

— Sivananda

#bad #composed #consequences #details #drops

I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#climb #conquer #feel #getting #getting started

Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#any #benefits #child #debt #family

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#come #discouraged #exercise #faith #good

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#another #build #climb #life #mountain