Avalanches – Quotes

All men now allow

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot. Evelyn Beatrice Hall

I like to skin

I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that’s nice because it’s wide open, with no avalanche danger. Erik Weihenmayer

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. Edward Abbey

Should each individual snowflake

Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche? Franz Wright

When I search for

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders. Frantz Fanon

Unexpected doors fly open,

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

All that is mine

All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways. Florence Scovel Shinn

What advice I would

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.) Donald E. Westlake

We are now at

We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data – the lowest cognitive form – has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information. Dee Hock

The avalanche of time

The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of … Read more