Quotes of Pinnacle - somelinesforyou

“ Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence. ”

- Doug MacLeod

“ You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns — you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold! ”

- William Jennings Bryan

“ Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops. ”

- Althea Gibson

“ I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down. ”

- Mitch Hedberg

“ I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top. ”

- Matt Groening

“ There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ There is no top. There are always further heights to reach. ”

- Jascha Heifetz

“ Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ I think that the biggest misconception I have run across is people assuming that this is my final destination - that being a model is the pinnacle of my life - how wrong they are! ”

- Shae Marks

“ The full-grown modern human being… is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment… when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued. ”

- R. Briffault

“ On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx… ”

- Leon Trotsky
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