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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.
At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!'
I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990. — © Carol Bellamy
I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.
Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.
They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
I summited four mountains - Kangchenjunga, Makalu, Broad Peak and Gasherbrum I - in one push. I didn't camp anywhere. Just went boom, summit, brother.
To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it. — © Gustav Mahler
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
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 it'll change. But there's no summit. It's a constant climb.
If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.
Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take before being one with the sons of the Earth.
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.
At G-20 summit, I worked with US and other countries to bring black money back.
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.
In 1992, India launched the India-Asian partnership and by 2005 we were members of the East Asia Summit.
I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.
There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.
A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be happier.
But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
The Summit of the Americas is an excellent platform to raise awareness and secure commitments from heads of state and different sector leaders regarding Early Childhood Development.
Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.
Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always high, and the results usually disappointing.
Once you have conquered your profession and are standing at the summit, it is all very well to look back down the slope and indulge yourself with regrets.
Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.
It's not easy to reach the summit of your career by the age of 24 - and for the years after to be a humiliating scrabble downhill.
I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi
The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue. — © Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
I have a very different fear if I'm all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that there is nothing below me, no Sherpa, no tent, no rope.
Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.
Back in 2014, at the One Young World Summit in Dublin, I shared my story of my escape from North Korea to China in 2007. I had no idea what was coming or what to expect.
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.
The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles.
From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife. — © Sylvia Plath
A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.
When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.
I'm doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.
Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.
Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.
If you wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then you can get to the summit of your dream.
I would never bring a flag on the summit. If somebody is climbing for a country he is not normal, he is sick.
Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases
It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down.
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