James Ramsey Ullman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.
-- James Ramsey Ullman -
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
-- James Ramsey Ullman -
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
-- James Ramsey Ullman -
Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.
-- James Ramsey Ullman -
It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.
-- James Ramsey Ullman -
The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.
-- James Ramsey Ullman
-
What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
-
Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
-
Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,
-
My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I’m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.
-
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
-
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
-
I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
-
Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
-
I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
-
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
You may also like:
-
A.J. Cronin
MD -
Artie Shaw
Clarinetist -
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Novelist -
Cornel Wilde
Actor -
Douglas Sirk
Film director -
Irene Hunt
Writer -
James MacArthur
Actor -
Jamling Tenzing Norgay
Mountain climber -
Jean Simmons
Actress -
Jim Whittaker
Mountaineer -
Kathleen Winsor
Author -
Lloyd C. Douglas
Author -
Michael Rennie
Film actor -
Oskar Homolka
Film actor -
Pearl S. Buck
Writer -
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet -
Taylor Caldwell
Novelist -
Tenzing Norgay
Mountaineer -
Tom Hornbein
Mountaineer -
Vincente Minnelli
Stage Director