"It's all bullshit on Everest these days."

-- Edmund Hillary

#Climbing Quotes #Bullshit Quotes #These Days Quotes

“Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.”
“When I first started to beatbox on the microphone with the Get Fresh Crew, people were shocked. Some things are just supposed to happen and you have to roll with it.”
“A youth, like a tree, needs pruning.”
“Grace is goodness and respect given freely and unconditionally. A sense of divine love and protection bestowed on us when we need strength and renewal. Grace helps us know we are not alone and believe we are cared for and cherished. Grace is a drink of clear, clean water in the desert.”
“Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.”

Source : Tami Hoag (2003). “Ashes to Ashes: A Novel”, p.71, Bantam
“The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.”
“Anybody in my job steers a tightrope between being popular and being principled.”
“Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom.”

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