Quotes About Peak

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

They rode up a trail until the trees parted and they got their first good view of Lone Peak across the valley and river. This late morning it was breathtaking. The stark peak gleamed against the deep blue of the big sky. No wonder this area had been named Big Sky.

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career.

'Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.

I have kind of reached the pinnacle of wrestling.

I'm 28, your career is a long time. We're not tennis players or football players. I'm just about reaching what should be my peak year.

In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.

In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in the history of international oil industry and bid the mighty peak farewell.

I don't think I could have dreamt it up any better than how things went, of being at my peak at just the right time, and have everything go my way.

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

Within that single fifteen-month period—perhaps the most creative in American literary history—Grant would not only write his Personal Memoirs, Twain would reach the peak of his career with the publication of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Those two books, perhaps the finest work of American nonfiction ever written and the greatest of all American novels, defined their legacy.

Within this hollow bed of the stream the whole range of the quarry was out of sight, except for where the just visible peak of an escarpment of spoil shelved up to the horizon's mountainous coagulations of floating cottonwool, a density of white cloud perforated here and there by slowly opening and closing loopholes of the palest blue light.

Montana named Triple Divide Peak.

In an agreement with China, President Obama has already pledged to reduce America's net greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 25% by 2025. In return, China has agreed to 'peak' its carbon-dioxide emissions in 2030.

We may have broken up at the height of our fame, but it was not the height of our success.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

I am happy that my career has been successful and I want to finish at the highest level possible.

My job, I've made it as far as I can and have gotten to the highest level.

For sure, 2010 was the best year I've ever had. It couldn't have gone any better for me. Even if I just won the Olympic gold medal, that would have made it the best year of my career and the best day of my life, period. Winning the World Cup races and the overall title just topped it off.