Quotes
Authors
Dave Cook
"I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century." --
Dave Cook
#Lying Quotes
#Climbing Quotes
#Brain Quotes
“Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.”
Source : 'Fables' bk. 8 (1678-9) 'La Mort et le Mourant'.
“No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.”
“I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.”
“The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.”
“I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.”
“Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers”
“Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to a kind of acquiescence in spheres of influence. Now, spheres of influence sound good if you're a graduate student, or a certain kind of - an academic with a certain habit of mind. But in fact, spheres of influence don't work out very well, certainly not for the victims, and there are always victims.”
Source : Source: www.politico.com
“You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this..then there's something wrong with me. -Luke Brandon”
