Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and… — Bill Owens Copy Share Image
Since his arrival, the new secretary of state has not held a single press conference. On his first big trip to Europe… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other, And they are to branch boundlessly out of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
It does seem to me, though, that the countries that gained most from World Summit on the Information Society are those that… — David Souter Copy Share Image
Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After what seemed like an eternity, we finally reached the summit just as the sun was rising. I couldn't believe that we… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I don't think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year… — David Souter Copy Share Image
As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I want you to know that I don't have any right, Malawi has no right to stop any president from coming to… — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing… — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We're all so digital, but the '50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Where two nations are gonna have a summit and a joint agreement's gonna be announced, the joint agreement and the language is… — Rush Limbaugh 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
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal. — Lincoln Chafee Copy Share Image
Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag… — Erik Weihenmayer 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
We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and… — Hassanal Bolkiah 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
“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
Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from… — John Joly Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised reading my old journals. There's this idea that life is hard now, but then I'll reach that moment where… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
You definitely need a really decent bomb-proof summit suit, because that's what you wear in these extreme conditions and at extreme altitude. — Nirmal Purja Copy Share Image
“How hazardous are high powered industrial sodium LASER exposures to night shift summit staff working at very high altitudes across their full… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
