Quotes with mountain-peaks

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  • Bill Hybels How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Martin Luther King I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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W. Bruce Cameron I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Ann Patchett I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Wilma Rudolph I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
    Wilma Rudolph
     
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  • Bob Dylan I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, ''Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.''
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bayard Ruskin I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.
    Bayard Ruskin
     
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  • Caleb Carr I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
    Caleb Carr
    American military historian and author (1955 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Sir Edmund Hillary It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
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  • Robert W. Service It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
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  • Bern Williams Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.
    Bern Williams
    English philosopher
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  • John Ruskin Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Augustus William Hare Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • John Wanamaker One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
    John Wanamaker
    American merchant and religious (1838 - 1922)
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  • Edna Ferber Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
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  • Richard Nixon Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bill Owens Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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