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Quotes About Apogee

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Nuendo also interfaces directly to my Apogee converters, which I feel are the best on the market. I'm also mixing to surround
~ Robert Wolff
Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.
~ Edward Abbey
Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.
~ Colin Farrell
During the long nights in the caves, how many Hamlets must have murmured their endless monologues—for it is likely that the apogee of metaphysical torment is to be located well before that universal insipidity which followed the advent of Philosophy.
~ Emil Cioran
for it is likely that the apogee of metaphysical torment is to be located well before that universal insipidity which followed the advent of Philosophy.
~ Emil M. Cioran
A central fact, possibly the central fact, about the Hebrew Bible is that it is not written at a moment of apogee, but over three centuries (eight to fifth) of trouble, That is what gives the Book its cumulative sobriety, its cautionary poetic, severity from the coarseness of triumphal self-congratulation found in imperial cultures.
~ Simon Schama
L'apogée, la splendeur de l'Islam se situent entre VIIIème et XIIème siècles. Mais la perte très dangereuse de vitesse n'a guère commencé pour lui qu'avec le XVIIIème siècle, c'est-à-dire, à l'échelle lente des civilisations.
~ Fernand Braudel
Summer has weeks left, but once the calendar displays the word "September," you'd think it was Latin for "evacuate." I pity them for missing the best weather and the most energized time of year…It's an extremely impressive display of life at the apogee of summer, the year's productivity mounded and piled past the angle of repose. It is a world lush with the living, a world that-despite the problems- still has what it takes to really produce.
~ Carl Safina
most of the great religions were either born or reached their apogee at a time when the societies that adopted them had a younger and poorer demographic base. Societies in which 70 per cent of the population was under the age of eighteen - half of them men with their veins bursting with violence and the urge to procreate
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The answer was that it was about twenty degrees west of their projected apogee, encircling a large new habitat called Akureyri, and heading generally in the direction of the Cape Verde boneyard that separated the Greenwich segment from the Rio segment. Which meant that it would soon be in the predominantly Ivyn part of the ring.
~ Neal Stephenson
Markus came back on the air. "Jiro and Dinah, you must be ready to fire the main propulsion at apogee—
~ Neal Stephenson
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
~ Nicolas Roeg