The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain [Mt. Rainier] emotionally and psychically, and yet how far away the world is when you're on the mountain.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The waves may break upon the mountain, yet still they come, wave upon wave, and in the end only pebb... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far m... KHALIL GIBRAN A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far m... KAHLIL GIBRAN It isn't necessary to Mt. Hood Meadows. It's already the biggest ski area on the mountain. The deman... KATE MCCARTHY She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA When I look at this team, I still don't feel as though we are very far away. I think for us to get c... BRIAN WESTBROOK We did intensely study this, and when you stand on Yucca Mountain the cinder cones are moving away. ... ALLEN BENSON Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID Miracle is not so far away but easy to fade away. MAZ NO PARADISE But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it? NEIL GAIMAN But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?’ ‘Easy,’ said the cat. ‘... NEIL GAIMAN We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL It is not the obstacles that is the mountain ;but it is our lack of knowledge of how to deal with th... SUNDAY ADELAJA When (the bat) gets an echo back, it uses features of the echo to tell how far away the bug is. CYNTHIA MOSS I don’t want to love him—this would be so much simpler if I didn’t. But I do. He’s funn... RACHEL VINCENT To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend... CRAIG GROESCHEL How far away the stars seem, and how far Is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart! W.B. YEATS 'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger jus... EMILE HIRSCH It's hard for me to understand how poverty can be invisible to so many people, since I see it ev... ADRIAN NICOLE LEBLANC PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON It's hard to forget that just a couple miles away there is complete destruction where the city was s... BILLY CARROLL The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS With dancing, you have to know spatial movement with somebody. It is steps. It's literally steps... CHANNING TATUM You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrai... HOPE MIRRLEES No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a tr... JAMES ROZOFF Yucca Mountain isn't pretty. And it also isn't large. From far away, the mountain's just... JOHN D'AGATA When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far awa... JAN BERRY What I did was a terrible thing, ... Words cannot describe how I'd feel if someone took my daughter ... JONATHAN MILLER We have to learn that when you get a team on the ropes, you have to put them away. The biggest thing... TOM ARMSTRONG If Moses is not coming to the mountain, then the mountain will come to Moses DUTCH PROVERB It is amazing how the mountain just has gotten busier. DARYL MILLER As a boy I'd often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize ... TOM HANKS Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a... JOHN MUIR Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of... ANDREI TARKOVSKY The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might ... CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow... RICHELLE MEAD I think our guys are very, very hungry, being so close and seeing it slip away. I'm anxious to see h... GERRY KEESLING I was really pleased seeing how far they have come this year. The poise and the coolness they portra... LORI DRUMTRA Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. "Safe, true, ... MERCEDES LACKEY How come there are so many murders in the African-American community? What other place can you get a... ADREINNE YOUNG When all the birds drowned in the sliver bay When the smoke signal went into outer space N... 喬靖夫 The man who removed the mountain began by carrying away small stones CHINESE PROVERB When they first handed me my helmet and pads, I jokingly asked, 'Do I have to wear these?' ... With... BEN GRAHAM When they first handed me my helmet and pads, I jokingly asked, 'Do I have to wear these?' ... Witho... BEN GRAHAM I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing b... BRADLEY CHICHO It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h... RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it." A feeling of warmt... RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness.... RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice. "Not where I should have b... RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun. RENEE AHDIEH Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or sp... JOHN MUIR I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write twe... BIZ STONE How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving. CRAIG GROESCHEL Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim... MARGARET ATWOOD Mountains have long been a geography for pilgrimage, place where people have been humbled and streng... JOAN HALIFAX How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top. YVON CHOUINARD How much distant is far away???????? JOSEPH MATHEW I was really impressed with the kids at halftime and how they were so calm and focused. They knew th... KURT FAUST i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Even though the bee is small, there she is on the flower, doing something of value. And the value sh... JAY EBBEN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY When the finish line seems too far away, remember how you felt when you were back at the starting li... TONI SORENSON The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul. RENEE AHDIEH If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away. BEAU MIRCHOFF What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL I roam the streets, silent and still, I look for You, in each and everything. I have come ... SYED MURTAZA HAROON The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. WILLIAM FAULKNER The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. CONFUCIUS The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ANONYMOUS The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. UNKNOWN The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. CHINESE PROVERBS But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people.... WILLIAM LANDAY I don't believe in the hero that sets out to climb a mountain and achieves it with no setbacks. I he... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Hark! Hark to the wind! 'Tis the night, they say,
When all souls come back from the far away-
The de... VIRNA SHEARD No matter how tall the mountain is, there is always a road to the top of it. VIKRANT PARSAI For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book. NATHANIEL PHILBRICK On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist.... LARRY NIVEN It's so awesome. It's a parent's dream. She'll get to travel and I'll get to watch her. It's far awa... SHELLY ARREDONDO I feel that when we look at what's going on in the world and fossil fuels and all the problems with ... CLAIRE ROBY Oh God I never saw so many people in fact I asked one of those people I was driving by on the mounta... FRED PUTNAM The only thing I know about Moses is him coming down from the mountain with the commandments and say... STEVE KLUGER Wishing on that far away star, how far removed we truly are. MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mo... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things WALT DISNEY COMPANY When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater. L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,... MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I d... CANDACE BUSHNELL
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The Man of Sorrows had a part. MICHAEL BRUCE Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who i... LENNY BRUCE The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seem... LENNY BRUCE Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. LENNY BRUCE The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation. BRUCE LEE It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. BRUCE LEE Many a person who goes on a diet finds out in short order that they are poor losers BRUCE FROEMMING Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys co... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict a... BRUCE KENT Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not th... BRUCE JENNER