Summit Quotes
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
Daniel Boone -
After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.
Rafael Correa
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Kofi Annan has already been instrumental in pushing forward that debate in the United Nations. I firmly support his efforts. A successful United Nations Summit next week presents the international community with a real opportunity to secure the necessary change.
Jack Straw -
What we are discussing is what we have to do, the very clear undertakings given by the European Council at a summit last December and again this June, to lead to an opening of negotiations on October 3rd. I will say that I am reasonably hopeful that this deadline can be met.
Jack Straw -
I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...
Gaston Bachelard -
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.
Rene Daumal -
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
Petrarch -
You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.
Yvon Chouinard
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Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
President Obama and Vladimir Putin are both in China attending the same economic summit. Obama saw Putin and said, 'After those midterms, it's nice to finally see a friendly face.'
Conan O'Brien -
Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.
Ivan Pavlov -
They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.
Conan O'Brien -
At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases
Barbara Taylor Bradford -
Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
Paul D. Boyer -
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.
Ed Viesturs -
Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.
Pablo Picasso -
The summit is just a halfway point.
Ed Viesturs -
Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.
Erik Weihenmayer
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Only an easy scramble remained and we were there, on the hitherto untrodden summit of Nelion.
Eric Shipton -
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson -
What you think is the summit is only a step up
Seneca the Younger -
Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton