Quotes about Mount

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit. Votes: 4

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. Votes: 4

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. Votes: 4

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there. Votes: 4

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. Votes: 4

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. Votes: 4

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. Votes: 4

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer. Votes: 4

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 4

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. Votes: 4

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love. Votes: 4

Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility. Votes: 4

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Votes: 4

I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me. Votes: 4

The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was. Votes: 4

Mount Calvary is the academy of love. Votes: 3

Mount and begone. The world awaits you. Votes: 3

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there. Votes: 3

... Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore ... Votes: 3

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly! Votes: 3

The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone. Votes: 3

Jah sitteth in Mount Zion, and rules all creation! Votes: 3

Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain. Votes: 3

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. Votes: 3

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation. Votes: 3

And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus. Votes: 3

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. Votes: 3

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest. Votes: 3

It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile. Votes: 3

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 3

No government may remain strong by ignoring the commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai. Votes: 3

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly! Votes: 3

Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly, and Sean Hannity are the Mount Rushmore of keeping old people angry. Votes: 3

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus. Votes: 3

Here comes Moses tromping down off Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life. Votes: 3

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast. Votes: 3

If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 3

Do not wait for orders from headquarters! Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the guns! Votes: 3

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face. Votes: 3

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 3

There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it. Votes: 3

We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset. Votes: 3

Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest. Votes: 3

If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from Votes: 3

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity. Votes: 3

Looking at Mount Kenya in the morning is a holistic experience. I go back at least once a year. Votes: 3

There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love. Votes: 3

I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 3

Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting. Votes: 3

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.) Votes: 3

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is. Votes: 3

Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet. Votes: 3

I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn't mean I have any intention of trying to climb it Votes: 3

I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters. Votes: 3

Were Moses to go up Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd bring down with him would be aspirin and Prozac. Votes: 3

Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest. Votes: 3

Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much? Votes: 3

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care. Votes: 3

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame. Votes: 3

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. Votes: 3

I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot. Votes: 3

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon. Votes: 3

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. Votes: 3

If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further. Votes: 3

He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the postage stamps. Votes: 3

For years, Mount Holyoke professor Joseph 'Full Metal Jacket' Ellis had been regaling students, interviewers and friends with gripping stories of his service in Vietnam. Votes: 3

My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and"”oh, yeah"”head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time. Votes: 3

Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Votes: 3

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front. Votes: 3

THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin. Votes: 3

If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro. Votes: 3

I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world. Votes: 3

Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love's stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love's horse will carry you home. Votes: 3

If the saying "the Temple Mount in our hands," is portrayed as incitement to the police, there's no need to change the saying, but the police. Votes: 3

I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born. Votes: 3

I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world. Votes: 3

Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . . Votes: 3

Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California Votes: 3

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life. Votes: 3

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it. Votes: 3

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 3

I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea. Votes: 3

The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it. Votes: 3

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs. Votes: 3

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now. Votes: 3

Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing! Votes: 3

When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top. Votes: 3

I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do. Votes: 3

Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He just asked that we love one another. Votes: 3

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be. Votes: 3

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. Votes: 3

Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn. Votes: 3

A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be able to move ahead. Votes: 3

If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.' Votes: 3

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series. Votes: 3

That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature. Votes: 3

She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue The mountain, my lady She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning dew, Mount Eskel, my lady Votes: 3

Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world. Votes: 3

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai. Votes: 3

Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous. Votes: 3

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest. Votes: 3

There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest Votes: 3

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 3

I remembered the last time Annabeth and I had parted ways, when she'd given me a kiss for luck in Mount St. Helens. This time, all I got was the hat. Votes: 3

I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be. Votes: 3

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 3

But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do. Votes: 3

If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake. Votes: 3

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount Votes: 3

In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted in all that remained, such as Jesus's Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 3

I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal. Votes: 3

I wouldnt mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal. Votes: 3

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain. Votes: 3

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ. Votes: 3

Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published. Votes: 3

I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well. Votes: 3

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world. Votes: 3

I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain. Votes: 3

After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting. Votes: 3

People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary. Votes: 3

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo. Votes: 3

New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens. Votes: 3

She has slimmed down since the height of impeachment, her thick blow-dried hair as shiny as Russian sable and her creamy cleavage, as historic in its own way as Mount Rushmore, was quite wonderful to behold. Votes: 3

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven. Votes: 3

If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him. Votes: 3

I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to. But to walk down to the hardware store I find a little bit more difficult Votes: 3

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them. Votes: 3

You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense. I mean sitting on Mount St. Helens when it went off would have been small talk. Votes: 3

You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense. I mean sitting on Mount St. Helens when it went off would have been small talk. Votes: 3

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home? Votes: 3

... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 3

[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere. Votes: 3

The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. Votes: 3

Honestly, I would think I would go way back to Biblical times and be one of the guys who saw Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. It would be so cool to see what he was really like in person. Votes: 3

Honestly, I would think I would go way back to Biblical times and be one of the guys who saw Jesus Sermon on the Mount. It would be so cool to see what he was really like in person. Votes: 3

When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since. Votes: 3

It wasn't a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek) No offense, but you'd have to fall of Mount Everest to have those kinds of wounds. (Astrid) Yeah, maybe next time I'll remember to take my climbing gear with me. (Zarek) Votes: 3

Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only. Votes: 3

As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me. Votes: 3

Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is - Never look for justice, but never cease to give it. Votes: 3

The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory of the universe, is each of us: not the physical self visible in the mirror, but the King within. Votes: 3

We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest. Votes: 3

I think the last album I bought was a very beautiful album called 'Lost Wisdom' by Mount Eerie featuring Julie Doiron, and I bought it direct from Phil Elverum via his website. It's cool you can do that now with the Internet. Votes: 3

Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing. Votes: 3

Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things! Votes: 3

The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount"¦If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State. Votes: 3

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 3

We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals. Votes: 3

When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top. Votes: 3

I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town . Votes: 3

Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons. Votes: 3

The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries-all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind. Votes: 3

As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It's being drawn to Iraq. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the eye to come back to the United States. Votes: 3

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic. Votes: 3

People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do. Votes: 3

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us. Votes: 3

We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world. Votes: 3

Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore. Can`t deface a national monument. And it`s a pity, too, because I had a wonde. Votes: 3

I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks? Votes: 3

As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places. Votes: 3

I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?' Votes: 3

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus. Votes: 3

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons. Votes: 3

Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave. Votes: 3

Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests. Votes: 3

I loved Morocco. It's very exotic and different from anywhere I've ever been. I had an amazing day there in the high Atlas Mountains near Mount Tamadot, when I rode by donkey into a Berber village and drank some mint tea with a Berber family. It was exceptional. Votes: 3

Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case. Votes: 3

No words for the passion. No words for the need.No words for the sheer epiphany of the moment.And so, on an otherwise unremarkable Friday afternoon, in the heart of Mayfair, in a quiet drawing room on Mount Street, Colin Bridgerton kissed Penelope Featherington.And it was glorious. Votes: 3

The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly. Votes: 3

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. Votes: 2

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. Votes: 2

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. Votes: 2

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. Votes: 2

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too. Votes: 2

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. Votes: 2

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. Votes: 2

African-Americans assume I'm named after the notorious Soledad prison or Mount Soledad in California. Latinos want to know if I'm lonely. That doesn't fit, because I grew up with five siblings, and I have four kids of my own, so I'm not lonely at all, though I do often seek solitude, the actual meaning of my name. Votes: 2

Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be 'a Benedict Arnold' is to be a traitor of the deepest dye - someone who coldly betrays not only a sacred cause but every moral scruple along the way. Votes: 2

The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast. Votes: 2

I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they. Votes: 2

I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television Votes: 0

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion. Votes: 0

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount. Votes: 0

Putting forth the effort to succeed is (tan.ta.mount), tantamount to your success. Votes: 0

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. Votes: 0

The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,As streams meander level with their fount. Votes: 0

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise. Votes: 0

Casually mount the sounds and straddle the colors while you transcend listening and surpass watching. Votes: 0

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. Votes: 0

Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance. Votes: 0

The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory. Votes: 0

Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. Votes: 0

Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum. Votes: 0

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear. Votes: 0

I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment. Votes: 0

All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts. Votes: 0

Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder? Votes: 0

I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack. Votes: 0

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting? Votes: 0

To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth. Votes: 0

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend. Votes: 0

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so. Votes: 0

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow. Votes: 0

From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight. Votes: 0

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. Votes: 0

When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house? Votes: 0

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation. Votes: 0

The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten. Votes: 0

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle. Votes: 0

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts. Votes: 0

From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale. Votes: 0

Deliverance is always found on 'the mount'; living faith must first prove to God that it has taken His word and promise for victory. Votes: 0

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase. Votes: 0

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. Votes: 0

Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities Votes: 0

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged. Votes: 0

... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea. Votes: 0

Do you respect someone's right to challenge and discover their true potential?How is a gang-bang any different than risking your life to climb mount Everest? Votes: 0

The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will. Votes: 0

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities. Votes: 0

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign. Votes: 0

Fetch Constantine, or I'll make boots out of your hide, bear. (Arcadian Sentinel) Don't touch me, or I'll mount your jewels to the wall over your head. (Aimee) Votes: 0

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul. Votes: 0

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee. Votes: 0

So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked. Votes: 0

The avalanche was down, the hillside swept bare behind it; the last echoes died on the white slopes; the new mount glittered and lay still in the silent valley." Votes: 0

With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world. Votes: 0

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure. Votes: 0

I do think everyone would be a lot happier if we laid eggs on our own and could just have friendship and didn't need to mount and penetrate one another. Votes: 0

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled. Votes: 0

I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. Votes: 0

I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing. Votes: 0

Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt. Votes: 0

It really should be a criminal offense for an electrician to mount a breaker box on a bedroom wall. Unfortunately, I see the solar industry mounting inverters on bedroom walls also! Votes: 0

.. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me. Votes: 0

If we never had the courage to take a leap of faith, we'd be cheating God out of a chance to mount us up with wings like eagles and watch us soar. Votes: 0

They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Votes: 0

Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence. Votes: 0

Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. Votes: 0

Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages. Votes: 0

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground. Votes: 0