Quotes About Heights

They were heading into the wooded areas of the mountains. The elevation was causing Adam's ears to clog up.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.

I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

As usual, when confronted with heights, my greatest fear was the irresistible urge to fling myself off.

The general who is skilled in defense hides in the most secret recesses of the earth; he who is skilled in attack flashes forth from the topmost heights of heaven.

The general who is skilled in defense hides in the most secret recesses of the earth; he who is skilled in attack flashes forth from the topmost heights of heaven. Thus on the one hand we have ability to protect ourselves; on the other, a victory that is complete.

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight And hell win the whole thing fore he enters the ring Theres no body to batter when your mind is your might So when you go solo you hold your own hand And remember that depth is the greatest of heights And if you know where you stand then you know where to land And if you fall it wont matter cuz youll know that youre right.

The luxury of skyscrapers is that they allow human beings to rise above themselves

But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, "I must not fall. The spangled sea below wants me to fall. It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all."

No one's hungry in the first few seconds of a skydive.

You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.

I've had some rank auditions where I embarrassed myself to new heights, which is hard for me to do. I was never good at auditioning. There are a number of actors over the years come up the ranks who are horrific at auditioning.

Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30 000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.

What beauty could be your life's mountain peak which you could climb all the way up?

On the top of each peak you are on the edge of the abyss

carefully pulled himself up to look into the horizontal ventilation

I have proved my skills as an actress who can perform both character and glamour roles and 'Uyir' would take me to greater heights.

Much as I hate to stand out in a crowd, I have this terrible occasional compulsion to make myself a source of merriment for the world, and I had come close to sealing new heights with a Russian hat. Now, clearly, that would be unnecessary.

I looked up—a sheer, flat, white rocky face (the kind you would take a ski lift to reach the top of or wear a parachute to jump from)—and thought: Oh, shit.