But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know so I do like that solitude.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
After much prayerful consideration I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below and it's a valley of peace.
I am not bound for any public place but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
We climbed the stairs to the third floor where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2 2011.
O sweet delusive Noon Which the morning climbs to find O moment sped too soon And morning left behind.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions but you really climb for the hell of it.
I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say 'I'm still dead Mom!' I was Method even then.
When we tire of well-worn ways we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb and to seek the mountain view.
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage or other fun things like that.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
One thing I can't do and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way is climb a rope. Oh my gosh it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms.