Climbing, as my grandmother said, it's a pretty frivolous thing. She always wondered when I was ...
CONRAD ANKER The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.
CONRAD ANKER We can't take climate change and put it on the back burner. If we don't address climate chan...
CONRAD ANKER The mountains seem to have conquered us long before we set foot on them, and they will remain long a...
CONRAD ANKER Once I graduated from university, I wanted to climb and be outdoors as much as possible. I worked as...
CONRAD ANKER The compression of time one experiences when you're a small person underneath this huge avalanch...
CONRAD ANKER The first ascent of Everest came at a time when humanity needed relief from two world wars. It was a...
CONRAD ANKER If people see me giving back to the military, they'll hopefully follow suit and be good to these...
CONRAD ANKER Standing on the apex of our planet is humbling. I'm starved of oxygen, depleted of reserves, una...
CONRAD ANKER When I was a kid, we would build pillow forts. My pillow fort was always like Ice Station 9 in Antar...
CONRAD ANKER Here at home, we're in a world of right angles and human construct, so whether it's cement o...
CONRAD ANKER If you compare Everest photographs in 1953 with its current state, things are melting. I imagine if ...
CONRAD ANKER It's our human nature to explore. Tens of thousands of years ago, our species walked out of Afri...
CONRAD ANKER The mountains are a demanding, cold place, and they don't allow for mistakes.
CONRAD ANKER The alpine environment is very delicate. I've been able to see change in the mountains in the 20...
CONRAD ANKER Live in the moment and make the most of every single hour that you're alive. Like it says on the...
CONRAD ANKER Specifically choose not to take a GPS. Just create a challenge. You can climb Everest or walk across...
CONRAD ANKER If people want to go do some big outdoor thing for their ego, have them climb snowy mountains rather...
CONRAD ANKER Looking out of a tent door into a world of snow and vanishing hopes. ~George Mallory
CONRAD ANKER It's more of an adventure when you set off into unknown territory, and there's nothing like ...
CONRAD ANKER Periodista:
-¿Por qué vá a subir al Everest?
Mallory:
-Porque está ahí.
CONRAD ANKER This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on h...
JOSEPH CONRAD All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none i...
CONRAD BLACK There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
CONRAD HALL Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; b...
CONRAD HILTON Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely th...
JOSEPH CONRAD In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bo...
JOSEPH CONRAD I'd love to design bridal dresses.
LAUREN CONRAD A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRAD Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.
CONRAD WOLFRAM When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the def...
KENT CONRAD Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happ...
KENT CONRAD I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my de...
CONRAD VEIDT Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begi...
CONRAD VEIDT You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers.
LAUREN CONRAD There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...
JOSEPH CONRAD All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so...
CONRAD AIKEN Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know
CONRAD AIKEN I love you, what star do you live on?
CONRAD AIKEN And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sun...
CONRAD AIKEN Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that...
CONRAD AIKEN And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunl...
CONRAD AIKEN The man who wins is the average man,
Not built on any particular plan;
Not blessed with any ...
CONRAD HILTON She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, wi...
JOSEPH CONRAD It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRAD I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an ...
JOSEPH CONRAD The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.
JOSEPH CONRAD A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
JOSEPH CONRAD To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man app...
JOSEPH CONRAD We live as we dream--alone....
JOSEPH CONRAD Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The dan...
JOSEPH CONRAD Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.
LAUREN CONRAD The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different com...
JOSEPH CONRAD I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your ow...
JOSEPH CONRAD I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling wh...
JOSEPH CONRAD Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
JOSEPH CONRAD To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and temp...
JOSEPH CONRAD The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e...
PETER CONRAD Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but th...
CONRAD HILTON What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; ea...
JOSEPH CONRAD A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out in...
JOSEPH CONRAD What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself ...
JOSEPH CONRAD I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past yea...
JOSEPH CONRAD Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRAD All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont...
PETER CONRAD Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, ...
JOSEPH CONRAD Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little...
JOSEPH CONRAD An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in eve...
JOSEPH CONRAD A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
JOSEPH CONRAD All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an ...
JOSEPH CONRAD Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
JOSEPH CONRAD A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
JOSEPH CONRAD The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance...
PETER CONRAD A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wic...
JOSEPH CONRAD Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.
CONRAD HILTON Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the s...
JOSEPH CONRAD How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectr...
JOSEPH CONRAD It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them o...
JOSEPH CONRAD I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not a...
JOSEPH CONRAD A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
JOSEPH CONRAD Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity ...
JOSEPH CONRAD History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It...
JOSEPH CONRAD A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natur...
JOSEPH CONRAD It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible,...
JOSEPH CONRAD All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so...
CONRAD AIKEN It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
JOSEPH CONRAD The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with...
JOSEPH CONRAD The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, d...
JOSEPH CONRAD There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
JOSEPH CONRAD Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for the...
JOSEPH CONRAD They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond fi...
JOSEPH CONRAD Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely ...
JOSEPH CONRAD Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of si...
JOSEPH CONRAD You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
JOSEPH CONRAD It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, s...
JOSEPH CONRAD You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty...
JOSEPH CONRAD It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRAD The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities -- coura...
JOSEPH CONRAD The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
JOSEPH CONRAD There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembod...
JOSEPH CONRAD Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
JOSEPH CONRAD As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It ...
JOSEPH CONRAD Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man root...
JOSEPH CONRAD The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intellige...
JOSEPH CONRAD The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regard...
JOSEPH CONRAD When people pose the question, are you “coxom”, Tom Conrad? I like to pose a question back at th...
TOM CONRAD There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it...
JOSEPH CONRAD Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now ...
CONRAD AIKEN The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage,...
JOSEPH CONRAD The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every w...
JOSEPH CONRAD All a man can betray is his conscience.
JOSEPH CONRAD All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement ...
PETER CONRAD Once we played for the Princess of Monaco in Paris. We were the biggest ducks ever, wearing rented t...
CONRAD SEWELL Going home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRAD A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or n...
JOSEPH CONRAD It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, wa...
JOSEPH CONRAD For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for al...
JOSEPH CONRAD There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle la...
CONRAD HALL I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
CONRAD BLACK Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my n...
LAUREN CONRAD Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nat...
CONRAD BURNS I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the ...
LAUREN CONRAD Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an in...
CONRAD WOLFRAM I hope I'm still shooting when I'm 80.
CONRAD HALL It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of c...
CONRAD HALL I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.
CONRAD HALL The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
CONRAD HALL My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.
CONRAD HALL I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images ...
CONRAD HALL Photography is a very important part of my life.
CONRAD HALL It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had...
CONRAD HALL I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get b...
CONRAD HALL The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.
CONRAD HALL My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
CONRAD HALL But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.
CONRAD HALL Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.
CONRAD HALL Painting and writing are solitary arts.
CONRAD HALL With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film a...
CONRAD HALL I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.
CONRAD HALL It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
CONRAD HALL I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.
CONRAD HALL Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
CONRAD HALL Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
CONRAD HALL Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
CONRAD HALL I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
CONRAD HALL There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of pa...
LAUREN CONRAD You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
CONRAD HALL Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
CONRAD HALL Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the serv...
CONRAD BURNS Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto man...
CONRAD HILTON There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don&#...
PAUL CONRAD I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, li...
JOSEPH CONRAD The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
JOSEPH CONRAD All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's no...
CONRAD AIKEN Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an...
LAUREN CONRAD Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.
CONRAD BLACK I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation.
CONRAD WOLFRAM The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.
CONRAD HILTON Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
LAUREN CONRAD The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in...
CONRAD HILTON I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good d...
PAUL CONRAD Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.
LAUREN CONRAD They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritatin...
JOSEPH CONRAD He lived then before me, he lived as much as he had ever lived---a shadow insatiable of splendid app...
JOSEPH CONRAD Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.
JOSEPH CONRAD All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contai...
PETER CONRAD The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute dange...
CONRAD BLACK At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, ...
CONRAD BLACK I'm into mellow dates with really good food.
LAUREN CONRAD Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, wa...
CONRAD BLACK It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow o...
JOSEPH CONRAD Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.
LAUREN CONRAD My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can wri...
LAUREN CONRAD Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it...
KENT CONRAD No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Mor...
CONRAD BLACK I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.
JAMES CONRAD Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unio...
CONRAD BLACK When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you...
LAUREN CONRAD Even in the Pixar and DreamWorks animated movies, there are themes that could be taken into an adult...
CONRAD VERNON Speaking for both organizations, we want to thank the community for stepping up in a time of need li...
CHAD CONRAD We're really pleased with the results.
CHAD CONRAD Even with the rapid and generous support from the American public and neighboring countries, a Commu...
CHAD CONRAD We met a week ago and put the drive together. Together we can help more people. From the very beginn...
CHAD CONRAD Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, an...
CONRAD BURNS Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a ...
CONRAD BLACK Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but th...
CONRAD HILTON It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
JOSEPH CONRAD Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in ev...
JOSEPH CONRAD The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed kno...
JOSEPH CONRAD Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
CONRAD AIKEN Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely t...
JOSEPH CONRAD