- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mountain Quotes
On the climb, the summit, and never quite arriving.
Mountains show up here both literally, as something to train for and climb, and as a stand-in for any goal that keeps receding the closer you get to it. A few lines treat the summit as a place of quiet rather than conquest. See Climb quotes for more on the ascent itself.
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- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
- Heavy Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'
- Comma
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
- Exploits
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Ghost Adventures,' 'Mountain Monsters,' weird alien UFO shows like 'Ancient Aliens.' The people who are self-appointed experts in these fields are really a series of national treasures.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't bench press, but I use machines to work 10-12 muscle groups. Biceps, triceps, a few things for the back, calves, shoulders and so on - and then I'll go on the running machine, cross-trainer or mountain climber.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is important to me as an actor is that, even if I have to spread my arms, take my shirt off on a mountain top with my heroine in a chiffon sari, it still has to be me and my twist or my funny take on it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Khoton people are a small minority group of Mongolians renowned for living a traditional nomad life in the remote slopes and valleys of the Kharkhiraa-Turgen mountain range.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020