Summits Quotes

37 quotes by 29 authors

Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been… — Dag Hammarskjold
Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the… — Mark Twain
Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not the thunder praise… — Charles Spurgeon
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping… — Reinhold Messner
The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely… — Alfred Wainwright
I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains… — Alfred Wainwright
The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are… — Mao Zedong
Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the… — Lloyd C. Douglas
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of… — Michael Dirda
Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights.… — Anatoli Boukreev
Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I view… — Anatoli Boukreev
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods,… — Mao Zedong
Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived… — May Sarton
We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. — Lucretius
Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old?… — Thomas Hood
I don't think more mega-summits is the way to secure effective implementation. — Anders Fogh Rasmussen
There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been… — George Bernard Shaw

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