Quotes About Summit

Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.

I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.

there is nothing else in life like getting to the summit. What's more, I've always felt that the greater the challenge, the greater the reward.

Getting to the top is optional, getting back down is mandatory. A lot of people forget about that.

The famous last line of Herzog's book is "There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Mount McKinley

Morally, however, we had had absolutely no choice but to abort our summit try to help Thor and Chantal get down the mountain. That's why I find it so hard to stomach all the accounts in recent years—especially on Everest—of climbers ignoring others in trouble for fear a rescue effort would sabotage their own summit bids.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.

When I am identifying an objective, the summit is everything. I wouldn't make it up otherwise. I'm not a superman; I'm just mentally capable of concentrating on the end point. Once this has been achieved, I need a new task, a new idea, a new project. I've been lucky so far - I've always been able to get myself motivated for the next new thing. The challenges I set myself are age-related.

This," Herb said, "is the acme. The absolute acme. Why don't we just pull up to him and ask where he's going?

As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic mountain whose peak conceals the presence of God. There are, of course, many paths to the summit-some better than others. But because every path eventually leads to the same destination, which path one takes is irrelevant.

To put it all very plainly, evolution can continue. It has already brought forth humans from amoebas— why on earth should we think that after that prodigious feat lasting billions of years, evolution just petered out and wound down? And if the ratio amoeba to human is repeated, the result could only be God. The mystics simply show us the stages of higher evolution leading to that Summit.

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

The dreadful summit of the cliffThat beetles o'er his base into the sea.

Cloud-kissing Ilion.

Feel yourself climbing the mountain.

Meru is the culmination of all I've done and all I've wanted to do.

as though it had come to the top of the hill and gone over a precipice

Pollard took a breath. First Maria Juarez had disappeared, and now her tape had been destroyed, the same tape Maria claimed as her husband's alibi. Pollard found herself smiling, though without any humor. A hot breeze had picked up, but felt good on her face. She liked being on the summit. Pollard

In the early nineteenth century Wilhelm von Humboldt – one of the chief architects of the modern education system – said that the aim of existence is 'a distillation of the widest possible experience of life into wisdom'. He also wrote that 'there is only one summit in life – to have taken the measure in feeling of everything human'.

If you focus on the process of climbing, you'll end up on the summit.

I would meet directly with the leadership in Iran.