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  • Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.

    Fear   Real   Believe  
  • Look at an avalanche, and see that we are at our most powerful when we let go. Look at a flower, and see that we are at our most beautiful when we open up.

  • Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.

    Mean   Doors   Years  
  • The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

    Men   Numbers   Humanity  
    Aldous Huxley (1993). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel”, p.295, Ivan R. Dee
  • I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking.

  • Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all easily recognized by the human ear, and every word evoked by the falling leaf and drinking deer, beside a thousand other facts so small and spoken by the stream in so low a voice the human ear cannot hear them.

    John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.95, Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.

    Avalanches   Needs   Sin  
  • He kissed me fiercely, with an utter abandon that I could no more put a halt to than I could stop an avalanche.

  • The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

    John Burroughs (1895). “Fresh Fields”
  • God cannot save them from fools.

    Tree   Avalanches   Fool  
  • A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.

    Risk   Minorities   Alive  
    Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.202, Holt Paperbacks
  • What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.

  • See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!

    Strong   Rain   Heart  
  • Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.

    Pain   Avalanches   Made  
  • As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

    Rocks   Wind   Long  
    John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”
  • Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine ancient sources, inside and outside the New Testament, corroborating the disciples' conviction that they encountered the resurrected Jesus. That's an avalanche of data.

    Jesus   Data   Two  
    Source: www.biblegateway.com
  • Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

  • When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it.

  • Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free, and endless avalanches of abundance are poured out upon me, under grace in perfect ways.

    Doors   Perfect   Grace  
    Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.14, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

    Doctors   Doubt   World  
    Marcel Proust, James Grieve, Mark Treharne, John Sturrock, Carol E. Clark (2002). “In Search of Lost Time: Way by Swann's”
  • Everything that`s written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don`t think there`s anything I can do to stop it.

  • I think that Donald Trump has faced an unprecedented avalanche of critical coverage when he was running and frankly, I think, it in part he owes his victory to that.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

    Hate   Feet   People  
    Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.25, Vintage
  • What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering." (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)

    Tired   Giving   Advice  
  • So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

    Anger   Voice   Mountain  
    Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7002, Delphi Classics
  • At a time of great challenge in the life of America, where we've weakened America's place in the world, stifled America's economy, the campaign of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine has been an avalanche of insults.

    Source: www.politico.com
  • Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

    FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jul 14, 2016
  • Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

    "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". 1988.
  • As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".

    Nature   Heart   Garden  
    John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”
  • Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

    Franz Wright (2011). “Wheeling Motel”, p.12, Knopf
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