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Chamonix Alpine Adventures - Climbing and Ski Mountaineering Guide Antoine Savelli offers technical rock and ice climbing instruction and ski mountaineering guided ascents.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Climbing We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Climbing
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Climbing It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Climbing
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Climbing "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Climbing
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Climbing We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Climbing
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Climbing "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Climbing
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Climbing What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Climbing
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Climbing The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Climbing
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Climbing Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Climbing
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Climbing "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Climbing
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Climbing "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Climbing
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Climbing Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Climbing
