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Quotes About Summit

This was the plan: we would take a holy and sacred picture of the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley, to the very summit of the earth; once there, we would place it with sincere reverence amongst the chimerical shimmering palaces of ice and snow and then (accompanied by some weird Zen magic) we would light joss sticks, dance about making screechy kung-fu noises, get off our faces, and that would be it: Planet Earth saved. Simple.
~ Unknown
I am not enough to be only in the mountains, not enough to be on an expedition. I believe that if the walks uphill, then with some goal, and that goal is to climb to the top.
~ Jerzy Kukuczka
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Higher than the lark I climbed into the air, Taking breath At the summit of a pass.
~ Matsuo Bash?
If you keep on climbing a mountain, you will eventually reach the top. That's the thing with mountains, however big they are, there is always a top. Even if it takes all through the day and all through another night, you will usually get there. If yoy keep remembering there is a top.
~ Matt Haig
Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometime between the Obama-Medvedev summit in Prague in 2010 and Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2014, public opinion in both countries also flipped: solid majorities in both Russia and the United States now perceived each other as enemies.
~ Michael McFaul
It's submission," Rediger murmured. "The shocking and simple idea, which had never been so forcefully expressed, that the summit of human happiness resides in the most absolute submission.
~ Michel Houellebecq
As ever, the challenge was not just to get high on the mountain, but to haul up hundreds of kilos of supplies and equipment and set up a ladder of camps to the summit.
~ Unknown
K2 had been climbed, not conquered.
~ Unknown
He was appalled to see the expedition so casually misreported. Like everyone else in the team, Hunt thought that the issue of who had stepped on the summit first was absurd but he was also irked by repeated references to Tenzing "having guided" the British team. The Everest victory was the result of teamwork and everyone had played a role.
~ Unknown
The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top."
~ Nancy Barcus
Ginger Tangle had nothing against nature. She often stopped to notice the sky, clouds particularly, but also hawks circling and the dissipating puffy trails of planes. But today was different. Today, in the parking lot at the summit of Mount Washington, as she gazed at the granite ledges perched over sheer drops only inches from where her disgruntled teenage daughter stood, what she felt was hypertension. She could hear it, her heartbeat pulsing in her ears.
~ Unknown
Frustration is the distinctive psychological characteristic of democratic society. Where all may legitimately aspire to the summit, the entire pyramid is an accumulation of frustrated individuals.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Modern world history began with the discovery of the Self and attained its summit in the eventual awareness of the Absolute Self.
~ Unknown
In reality, however, it is out of the power either of heads or hands to alter in any way the destiny of machine-technics, for this has developed out of inward spiritual necessities and is now correspondingly maturing towards its fulfilment and end. Today we stand on the summit, at the point when the fifth act is beginning. The last decisions are taking place, the tragedy is closing.
~ Oswald Spengler
The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,
~ Exodus 19:20