Peak Quotes

350 quotes by 296 authors

Such is the nature of an expatriate life. Stripped of romance, perhaps that's what being an expat is all about: a sense of not wholly… — Sarah Turnbull
...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine. — Stephen King
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten… — Petrarch
The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can… — William O. Douglas
Sadly, I've seen a lot of bands hit that sort of peak and then eventually start supporting again, you know, which we will never do.… — Glenn Tipton
In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at… — Greg Louganis
Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the age of fifteen-or… — Leon M. Lederman
There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple… — John Galsworthy
What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins. — Arjuna Ardagh
I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will… — Veerappa Moily
Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we donâ€™t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognateâ€”perfectionismâ€”an inhuman aim motivated by… — Sarah Lewis
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could… — Edmund Hillary
I'd like to meet god. Not to question it, just to have a peak at what it is. I say 'it' because we don't know… — Ruud Gullit
In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.) — Edward Abbey
Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have gone… — Khalil Gibran
According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in… — Kenneth H. Cooper
Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading… — Allan Bloom
I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else… — Preity Zinta
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in… — Nigel Rees
I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week… — Oscar Pistorius

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