#bing

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#becomes #better #climbing #expands #finer

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#climbing #difficult #gives #glory #i

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#certain #feel #happy #i #idiot

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#drinking #himself #indulges #little #man

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#climbing #ever #feel #i #i feel

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#begins #bombing #fellow #fellow americans #five

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#become #denial #gymnastics #much #numbing

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters. ↗

— Alain Robert

#climbing #first #going #last #mean

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life. ↗

— Alain Robert

#drinking #eating #i #life #like

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in. ↗

— Eric Roberts

#built #characters #comes #describing #ease