"When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it."

-- Alain Robert

#Building Quotes #Wells Quotes #Climbs Quotes

“I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.”
“No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged without any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you....”
“Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.”
“Life disappoints. Everybody knows that. But must it horrify?”
“I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.”
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
“It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.”

Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”
“The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.”

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