#mount

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#down #go #life #life is a #mountain

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones. ↗

— Desmond Morris

#deal #equal #examining #fundamental #great

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized. ↗

— William Paley

#certain #disorder

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#making #molehills #mountains #out #plastic

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing. ↗

— Annie Smith Peck

#clothing #deal #endurance #good #good deal

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#amount #atheism #atheist #huge #i

One of the differences between us was that Marc wanted very badly to climb the Eiger, while I wanted very badly only to have climbed the Eiger. Marc, understand, is at that age when the pituitary secretes an overabundance of those hormones that mask the subtler emotions, such as fear. He tends to confuse things like life-or-death climbing with fun. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#mountaineering #age

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now. ↗

— Jimmy Rushing

#brotherly #business #carry #certain #love

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. ↗

— Egon Schiele

#body #everywhere #flowers #human #human body

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way. ↗

— Kate Seredy

#doubt #fear #heart #kill #mountains