What we initially conceived as a fairly simple geologic experiment on Mars ultimately turned into humanity's first real overland expedition across another… — Steve Squyres Copy Share Image
Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery;… — Lisa Kristine Copy Share Image
In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down... So why bother in the first place? Just this: What… — Joseph Jaworski Copy Share Image
Kofi Annan described World Summit on the Information Society as the first summit to deal primarily with an opportunity. The range of… — David Souter Copy Share Image
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality… To rest in or follow after… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
With only one life to live we can't afford to live it only for itself. Somehow we must each for himself, find… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Be patient, my friends; time rolls rapidly away; our longing has its end. The hour will strike, who knows how soon?- when… — Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher Copy Share Image
The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
President Obama hosted lawmakers Thursday saying he wanted bipartisan input on health care reform. Nobody's mind was changed. At the summit's end… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration… — Earl Hamner, Jr Copy Share Image
[Joe] Biden countered. He was speaking at a summit for working families, and he said he had no stocks, no bonds, or… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
The thing about the summit region of Mount Washington, it can have areas that are flat and rolling. In those conditions, it's… — Hugh Herr Copy Share Image
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“I consider myself fortunate that I spent three years working at 7,775 feet before spending five years working at 13,796 feet on… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magisterial wings above the knurled summit of the… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990. — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
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