Nothing good ever climbed up the side of a boat.
There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there. ' That's utter nonsense. . . You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.
There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.
The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.
-the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.
Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.
When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
My father lifted me up in his strong gentle arms and said something I will never forget. He said, "I know you can do it. There is nothing that you can't do. We're going to climb that hill together even if it takes us all day. " And at age 12 losing your leg pretty much seems like the end of the world. But as I climbed onto his back and we flew down the hill that day, I knew he was right. I knew I was going to be OK. You see, my father taught me that even our most profound losses are survivable. And it is what we do with that loss - our ability to transform it into a positive event.
If you climbed one step, it means you can climb the rest.
I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.
Something I'd like to be perfect at?. . . Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping.