#mount

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#highest mountain #may #mountain #over #step

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#amount #could #extreme #hear #heard

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff. ↗

— Kate Adie

#any #child #did #frightened #i

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#goal #life #live #mountain #only

They were both at such an age that they stood on a cusp. They could think in one part of their minds that their whole lives stretched out before them without boundary or limit. At the same time another part guessed that youth was about over for them and what lay ahead was another country entirely, wherein the possibilities narrowed down moment by moment. ↗

— Charles Frazier

#mountain #age

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden. ↗

— Alain Robert

#buildings #climb #forbidden #i #i am

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#goals #life #mountain #path #perseverance

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. ↗

— George Leigh Mallory

#any #ask #climbing #everest #first

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents. ↗

— Hodding Carter

#classified #classify #decisions #documents #doubled

A mountain had died, its skeleton had been scattered over the ground. Time had aged the mountain; time had killed the mountain-and here lay the mountain's bones. ↗

— Vasily Grossman

#age