"The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever."

-- George Leigh Mallory

#Climbing Quotes #Trying Quotes #Answers Quotes

“Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.”
“And just like that, I'd been assessed and judged. Nurse Fashoda didn't know the first thing about me but she'd taken one look at my face and now she reckoned she knew my whole life story -- what had gone before and what was yet to come.”

Source : Malorie Blackman (2007). “Knife Edge”, p.40, Simon and Schuster
“When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.”
“Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.”
“People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.”
“I am more of a knobhead than an egghead but I will be gutted if I get beat.”
“She praised his book and he embraced her from gratitude rather than lust, but she didn't let go. Neither did he. She kissed his cheek, his earlobe. For months they'd run their fingers around the hem of their affection without once acknowledging the fabric. The circumference of the world tightened to what their arms encompassed. She sat on the desk, between the columns of read and unread manuscript, and pulled him toward her by his index fingers.”
“You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.”

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