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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| efad0fc | Rozhlizel se kolem po nejakem kameni, kterym by se zabil. Zadny vsak nenasel. Musel to utrpeni vydrzet. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 3a73452 | Sedmkrat spadni, osmkrat se zvedni. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 9015064 | Slova Edwarda Whympera jsou pravdiva dodnes: ,,Lez, jestli te to bavi, ale pamatuj si, ze odvaha a sila neznamenaji bez opatrnosti nic... S nicim nepospichej, davej pozor na kazdy krok a od zacatku mysli na to, ze tohle muze byt i konec. | Bear Grylls | ||
| eb37c65 | Mallory tesil postaveni celebrity. Kdyz se ho jeden reporter New York Times zeptal, proc chce zdolat Everest, George odpovedel tremi slavnymi slovy, jez znaji snad vsichni horolezci. Tato slova jsou tlukoucim srdcem, mottem pohanejicim mnoho odvaznych pruzkumniku a dobrodruhu. ,,Protoze tam je. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 0d1e92c | For eighteen hours we had neither drunk nor eaten anything. My body and mind both felt strangely distant. Both were aching for some relief. In the porch of our tiny single-skinned tent, I reached out to hug Neil again. Then--unceremoniously--I collapsed. "Bear, come on, buddy. You've got to get inside the tent properly. Bear, can you hear me?" Michael's voice brought me round. He had been waiting for us at the col--hoping. I shuffled backwa.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 81903f3 | Zkouseli jste nekdy vyhrabat ze snehu auto? No tak zkuste vyhrabat lod z antarktickeho ledu. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 4b74f09 | So suddenly here we are. Six years on. I genuinely never believed we would film more than six episodes of , let alone six seasons. I mean, where has the time gone? I also really had no idea quite how many hellholes, remote jungles, stinking swamps, searing deserts, and forbidding, unexplored mountain ranges we have on this small planet of ours. People forget. Me included. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 77d9b5a | Just before my accident, I had met a great girl who was a student at Cambridge. With my newly found wheels, I used to ride like a lunatic up the motorway to see her after our final evening parade at the rehab center. I would take her out for dinner, sleep over, and then get up at 4:00 A.M. to race the two hours back down to Headley Court and morning parade. The staff had no idea. No one, they imagined, could be that stupid. It was often so .. | Bear Grylls | ||
| e978517 | Along the way, though, I was always careful not to get greedy or to go for the quick buck--despite the temptations in the early days. Financially, it was hard saying no to big appearance fees from TV shows like or --but I always had the long goal in mind and tried to keep the main thing the main thing. And not get distracted by fluff. Instead, know your strengths. I also tended instinctively to shy away from both TV and the whole concept.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| c377776 | One thing I am clear on, though, is why the show has been so successful. I consider it is down to the magic three: good fortune, an amazing team, and a willingness to risk it all. My magic trio. There is no doubt that good fortune and blessed timing have been at the heart of why the program has worked. All too often I meet extraordinarily talented people: whether they are world-class climbers, champion skydivers, or survival-bushcraft gur.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 9c61c54 | When a TV show starts out, it is incredibly competitive: maybe one in a hundred TV ideas goes on to get made into pilot (tester) episodes. Maybe one in twenty of those pilots will go on to have a first series commissioned. And maybe one in ten of those will be asked back for a second season. It takes a sprinkling of fairy dust and a lot of goodwill. But do two seasons and you will quite probably go on to do five--or more. So we got lucky. .. | Bear Grylls | ||
| f8e95c8 | Going through this phase, though, did confirm in my mind that at least Shara wasn't marrying me for either my looks or money. I was both broke and bloated. She, bless her, still loved me all the same. | Bear Grylls | ||
| e702c17 | Stay with me flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. | Bible quotes about love | ||
| ff0afe6 | I adjure you, o daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please. | Bible quotes about love | ||
| ceb9754 | Our wedding took place on a blustery midwinter day. The fifteenth of January 2000. Yet the sun shone through the clouds brightly. Shara's father, Brian, who so sadly was suffering with multiple sclerosis, gave her away from his wheelchair in the church. Brian cried. Shara cried. Everyone cried. We left the church to our friends singing a cappella versions of "Hey, Hey, We're the Monkees" and "I'm a Believer." I was the happiest I had ever .. | Bear Grylls | ||
| dd5c9dc | Several months earlier Shara and I had bought a home together. Well, to be more accurate it was a barge, moored on the Thames in central London. Neil had spotted it for us, and we looked around it straight away. I instantly loved it. We had previously been quite close to putting in an offer on a tiny, poky studio flat in London--but deep down I was concerned. For a start, I couldn't really afford it. Dad had offered to help me secure a mort.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 63f264b | On one occasion, after a particularly long spell away from home, I got Shara to fly into the mountains we were filming in. "Bring the boys, my love, I miss you." That night, I hitched a lift with the crew, jumped into the helicopter that was extracting them back to base, and went to the lodge they were staying in. Shara was there, waiting. I spent the night in my family's arms and went back to film the next day. Reckless, I know. But the pr.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 5f843fd | The day after our wedding, we flew off on honeymoon. I had recklessly waited until two days before our wedding to book the holiday, in the hope that I would get some great last-minute deal somewhere. Always a dangerous tactic. I pretended to Shara that it was a surprise. But, predictably, those "great deals" were a bit thin on the ground that week. The best I could find was a one-star package holiday, at a resort near Cancun in Mexico. It w.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| a0405de | We opened the door and looked at each other. Surprised. It was literally like stepping into a deep freeze. Old iron boats are like that in winter. The cold water around them means that, without heating, they are Baltically cold. We fumbled our way, still all wrapped up, into the bowels of the boat and the boiler room. Shara looked at me, then at the silent, cold boiler. No doubt she questioned how smart both choices had really been. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 7185d4b | So there we were. No money, and freezing cold--but happy and together. That night, all wrapped up in blankets, I made a simple promise to Shara: I would love her and look after her, every day of our life together--and along the way we would have one hell of an adventure. Little did either of us realize, but this was really just the beginning. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 917da1e | My granny Patsie Fisher | Bear Grylls | ||
| 4f31f99 | Every bird that upwards swingsBears the Cross upon its wings. | Birds | ||
| 74f88fc | The second element to why the show has worked is undoubtedly my team. And guess what? I am not alone out there. I work with a truly brilliant, small tight-knit crew. Four or five guys. Heroes to a man. They work their nuts off. Unsung. Up to their necks in the dirt. Alongside me in more hellholes than you could ever imagine. They are mainly made up of ex-Special Forces buddies and top adventure cameramen--as tough as they come, and best fri.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 2a1cc79 | The final magic ingredient has been a willingness to risk it all. All in. No questions asked. The program started, and grew, from a determination to push the boundaries. Do the impossible. Climb the impassable--eat the inedible. Of course, there was often a safer, easier way down the waterfall or cliff face. But I rarely took it. That wasn't my aim. I wanted to show you how to survive when you have no safe options. And I loved it. I had lea.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| ff1a7e4 | I have been so lucky to lead amazing teams to incredible places: the remote Venezuelan jungles of the "Lost World" in search of Jimmy Angel's lost gold; or the remote white desert that is Antarctica to climb unclimbed peaks. (I managed to break my shoulder in a fall on that trip, but you can't win them all!) Then we returned to the Himalayas, where my buddy Gilo and I flew powered paragliders to above the height of Everest. Once again, we w.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| a0bed55 | There has been one further element to success, and that is its underlying message. I believe it is actually the biggest factor. If you think about it, at heart, there is such a strong link between survival and life. I mean, we are all in a battle of some sort, aren't we? Surviving. It feels like day by day sometimes. But talent, skill, and luck are only a part of what carries people through. A small part. There is a bigger element that se.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 02dbf34 | A young kid came up to me in the street a few days ago. He looked me square in the eye and asked me: "If you could tell me one survival message, what would it be?" I thought about it for a moment. I wanted to give him a decent answer. Then I saw it very clearly. "Smile when it's raining, and when you're going through hell--keep going." The boy thought for a moment. Then he looked up at me and said: "It rains a lot where I live." We all know.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 839490e | Surely goodness and loyal love will pursue me all the days of my life, | Bible quotes about love | ||
| 12d3680 | He loves righteousness and justice. | Bible quotes about love | ||
| a50d327 | Among these have been an unhealthy number of near-death moments, many of which I look back on now and wince. But I guess our training in life never really ends--and experience is always the best tutor of all. Then there are the most bizarre: like jet-skiing around Britain in aid of the UK lifeboats. Day after day, hour after hour, pounding the seas like little ants battling around the wild coast of Scotland and Irish Sea. (I developed a wei.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| e57aca0 | The Royal Marines description of me as "happy-go-lucky" is good for many things, but somehow it doesn't wash with university applications. And with my mediocre A level results I was getting a hefty number of rejections winging my way. A lot of my good friends were heading to Bristol University. But I had as much change of getting in there with my ACDC grades as Deborah Maldives had of winning a beauty pageant." -- | Bear Grylls | ||
| 480e456 | Slowly my movement returned and the pain lessened, until, by the time I left the center some eight months after the accident, I really was on the mend. I knew I was getting better when I sneaked out one night, caught a train home, collected my 1200 cc motorbike, and, still strapped up in my metal back brace, rode the bike back to Headley Court before dawn. The nurses would have gone nuts if they could have seen me, but my motorbike was my i.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 54a2b84 | Eventually, at 7:22 A.M. on the morning of May 26, 1998, with tears still pouring down my frozen cheeks, the summit of Mount Everest opened her arms and welcomed me in. As if she now considered me somehow worthy of this place. My pulse raced, and in a haze I found myself suddenly standing on top of the world. Alan embraced me, mumbling excitedly into his mask. Neil was still staggering toward us. As he approached, the wind began to die away.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 9e994aa | We were eighteen thousand vertical feet above sea level, in the mouth of Everest's killer jaws. I noticed my hand was shaking as I fumbled with the ropes through thick mittens. It was pure fatigue. An hour later, it felt like we were still no closer to base camp, and it was starting to get late. I glanced nervously around the icefall. We should be meeting back up with Nima somewhere around here, as arranged. I scanned around but couldn't se.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 278b4d7 | Eventually, at 7:22 A.M. on the morning of May 26, 1998, with tears still pouring down my frozen cheeks, the summit of Mount Everest opened her arms and welcomed me in. As if she now considered me somehow worthy of this place. My pulse raced, and in a haze I found myself suddenly standing on top of the world. Alan embraced me, mumbling excitedly into his mask. Neil was still staggering toward us. As he approached, the wind began to die away.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| ce57d61 | The rope I was dangling off wasn't designed for a long impact fall like mine. It was lightweight, thin rope that got replaced every few days as the ice, on the move, tore it from its anchor point. The rope was more of a guide, a support; not like proper, dynamic climbing rope. I knew that it could break at any point. The seconds felt like eternity. Then suddenly I felt a strong tug on the rope. I kicked into the walls with my crampons again.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| d5e0528 | Highlights of the Brunel featured the likes of Mr. Iraci, our landlord, coming around and being greeted by myself, stark naked, painting cartoons on my bedroom wall to liven the place up a bit; or Eddie showing another pretty girl his technique for marinating venison in a washing-up bowl full of Bordeaux wine. Our housekeeping kitty of funds would miraculously evaporate due to Hugo's endless dinner parties for just him and up to ten differe.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| e67a623 | I was also really fortunate at Eton to have had a fantastic housemaster, and so much of people's experience of Eton rests on whether they had a housemaster who rocked or bombed. I got lucky. The relationship with your housemaster is the equivalent to that with a headmasterat a smaller school. He is the one who supervises all you do, from games to your choice of General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), and without doubt he is the t.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 46c9597 | Lying in my tent alone that night I wept quietly, as all the emotion seeped out of me. For the second time in recent years, I knew I should have died. I wrote: March 31, midnight. The emotions of today have been crazy. And through it all, I just can't quite fathom how the rope held my fall. Over supper this evening, Nima spoke in rapid, dramatic gestures as he recounted the episode to the other Sherpas. I received double rations from Thengb.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 3257696 | One of the optional subjects that we could study at Eton was motor mechanics, roughly translated as "find an old banger, pimp it up, remove the exhaust, and rag it around the fields until it dies." Perfect. I found an exhausted-looking, old brown Ford Cortina station wagon that I bought for thirty pounds, and, with some friends, we geared it up big-time. As we were only sixteen we weren't allowed to take it on the road, but I reckoned with .. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 9b4e0bd | Trucker and I did quite a bit of busking together on our guitars, doing the rounds at various Bristol hot spots. This included the local old people's home, where I remember innocently singing the lyrics to "American Pie." The song culminates with the spectacularly inappropriate claim that this would be the day that I'd die. A long, awkward pause followed, as we both realized our predicament. The home wasn't a long-standing gig after that. W.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 34c33d2 | On our next return to base camp, and after the best night's sleep I had had since arriving in Nepal, I decided that I would call home on the satellite phone. At $3 a minute, I had not yet used the phone. I had enough debts already at this point. I'd originally intended to save my phone call for when and if I had a summit bid. "Mum, it's me." "Bear? It's BEAR!" she shouted excitedly. It was so good just to hear the voices of those I loved. I.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 1d97de8 | We were now receiving daily very accurate weather reports from the Bracknell Weather Centre in the UK. These gave us the most advanced precision forecast available anywhere in the world. The meteorologists were able to determine wind strengths to within five knots accuracy at every thousand feet of altitude. Our lives would depend on these forecasts back up the mountain. Each morning, the entire team would crowd eagerly around the laptop t.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 5e697b6 | Eton, for all its virtues, seriously lacked girls. (Well, apart from the kitchen girls who we camped out on the roof waiting for night after night.) But beyond that, and the occasional foxy daughter of a teacher, it was a desert. (Talking of foxy daughters, I did desperately fancy the beautiful Lela, who was the daughter of the clarinet teacher. But she ended up marrying one of my best friends from Eton, Tom Amies--and everyone was very env.. | Bear Grylls |