He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose:… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south.… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Over the past eight years, the United States has worked hard to deepen partnerships across the region and across South-east Asia in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
If you wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then you can get to the summit of your dream, — Yuichiro Miura Copy Share Image
“The journey to the highest mountains can be so lonely, but when you gaze upon the summit, you will find strength within.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
The only summit meeting that can succeed is one that does not take place. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Once you reach the top of the mountain and you want to climb the next one, you have to slowly make your… — Yunho Copy Share Image
The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
“I was never aware of any professional astronomy summit worker that had received formal industry recognized training in the safe handling of… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No one can be saved without divine light. Divine light causes us to begin and to make progress, and it leads us… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international… — John R. Allen Copy Share Image
The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The Summit of the Americas is an excellent platform to raise awareness and secure commitments from heads of state and different sector… — Shakira Copy Share Image
“Empty plastic water bottles at near seal level would become pressurized by the time we reached the very high altitude summit of… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day.… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
“Had I known the risks associated with oxygen administration, I would have refused to work atop the biologically hazardous Mauna Kea summit.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
