#mount

I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#enough #fell #friends #had #help

I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#explored #had #horn #i #mountain

The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#big #crossing #horn #miles #mountain

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#certain #need #nerve #writer #you

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#circular #compass #courses #go #heights

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on. ↗

— Andrew J. Bacevich

#being #going #knowing #much #our

You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#back #blood #certain #circulating #dizzy

You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too. ↗

— Anthony A. Williams

#effort #enormous #job #lose #put

The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#analysis #available #data #example #explosion

I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't. ↗

— Dana Hill

#felt #i #mountain #nervous #no reason