"When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous."

-- Stacy Allison

#Climbing Quotes #Tangled Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Regardless of how you feel about peak oil or global warming, the increased use of natural gas is a positive thing because it is being found at a rate that is faster than that of new oil reserves, it is relatively abundant, and our reserves are longer lived than our oil reserves... It does not get the kind of attention it deserves.”
“If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.”
“Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.”
“Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.”
“Iraq should commit itself to implement the U.N. resolutions, and the Iraqi leadership should put the interests of its people into consideration.”
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.”
“The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.”

Source : Ursula Nordstrom, Leonard S. Marcus (1998). “Dear genius: the letters of Ursula Nordstrom”, Harpercollins
“I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?”

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