"It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun."

-- John Sherman

#Fun Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Years Quotes

“Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.”
“When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do, who can walk with me, from room to sorrowful room, making the whole rambling structure of wind and emptiness not quite as scary, as lonely as it was before.”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.59, Penguin
“Ned said "Nancy Drew is the best girl detective in the whole world!" "Don't you believe him," Nancy said quickly. "I have solved some mysteries, I'll admit, and I enjoy it, but I'm sure there are many other girls who could do the same.”

Source : Carolyn Keene (1963). “Nancy Drew 08: Nancy's Mysterious Letter”, p.103, Penguin
“The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.”
“For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.”

Source : Randy Alcorn (2012). “Eternal Perspectives: A Collection of Quotations on Heaven, the New Earth, and Life after Death”, p.84, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the â€˜golden ageâ€™ of real estate.”
“Each of us has a universal within us. There's always that making of parts - but it doesn't touch the universal within you.”
“The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.”

Source : Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.10, New York : Oxford University Press

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