
“It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.”
A collection of quotes on the topic of peak, mountain, likeness, life.
“It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 212.
Secondary Sources
“The wood that crowns the peak of Nesis set fast in ocean.”
Silvaque quae fixam pelago Nesida coronat.
i, line 148 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
Silvae, Book III
"Written on the Wall at West Forest Temple" (《题西林壁》) (1084), in Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o, trans. Burton Watson (Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, 1994), p. 108
Assorted Themes, On Love for the Fellow Man
“God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals
Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills”
The Cherubinic Wanderer
“The industrial peak of a people when its main concern is not yet gain, but rather to gain.”
Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Introduction, p. 7.
"The Distracted Public" (1990)
It All Adds Up (1994)
Letter to James F. Morton (16 May 1926), quoted in Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 192
Non-Fiction, Letters, to James Ferdinand Morton, Jr.
Cate Blanchett: 'You know you're a pessimist when you win an Oscar and think, "Oh God, I've peaked"', The Guardian, 30 November 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/30/cate-blanchett-actor-pessimist-oscar,
"I am writing to you..." (1840)
Poems
Fiction, The Other Gods (1921)
Context: Atop the tallest of earth's peaks dwell the gods of earth, and suffer not man to tell that he hath looked upon them. Lesser peaks they once inhabited; but ever the men from the plains would scale the slopes of rock and snow, driving the gods to higher and higher mountains till now only the last remains. When they left their old peaks they took with them all signs of themselves, save once, it is said, when they left a carven image on the face of the mountain which they called Ngranek. … They are grown stern, and where once they suffered men to displace them, they now forbid men to come; or coming, to depart. It is well for men that they know not of Kadath in the cold waste; else they would seek injudiciously to scale it.
“You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.”
Source: The Carrie Diaries
“In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent”
“Long-term relationships--the ones that matter--are all about weathering the peaks and valleys.”
Jo, Chapter 33, p. 259
Source: 2009, Safe Haven (2010)
The Second Declaration of Havana (1962)
1930s, Address at Chautauqua, New York (1936)
Travels in Alaska http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/travels_in_alaska/ (1915), chapter 9: The Discovery of Glacier Bay
1910s
Section 4 : Moral Ideals
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
2000s, Welcome to the Big Darkness (2003)
1960, Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American
Bubble, Meet Pin http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230072 in The Market Ticker (28 April 2015)
1950s, Rediscovering Lost Values (1954)
"Joseph Mankiewicz, Master of the Movies," interview by Paul Attanasio, Washington Post (1986-06-01)
Sermons in Erlangen, Marburg, Göttingen and Frankfurt (January 1946), as quoted in Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (1984) by James Bentley, p. 177
Shakespeare over the Port (1960)
Moebius}}
Source: Corben, Richard; Moebius (preface) (2001). Den La Quete, tome 2. Toth. ISBN 978-84-85138-21-0.
1960s, The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)
Foreword to Peak Performance : Business Lessons from the World's Top Sports Organizations (2000) by Clive Gibson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts and Ed Weymes.
(from essay Michael Jackson and Summertime from this Point On).
From Articles, Essays, and Poems, On Michael Jackson
“It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.”
AP Interview: Favre indicates he'll play in '04, ESPN.com, November 7, 2003, 2007-11-12 http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?id=1656411,
Australian Broadcasting Corporation http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/5009818 (October 11, 2013)
VIII. 551–555 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Alexander Pope's translation:
: As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night,
O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light,
When not a breath disturbs the deep serene,
And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene;
Around her throne the vivid planets roll,
And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole,
O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed,
And tip with silver every mountain's head;
Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise,
A flood of glory bursts from all the skies.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
God and the Astronomers (1978), p. 116; (p. 107 in 1992 edition).
" The Treasures of the Yosemite http://books.google.com/books?id=ZzWgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA483", The Century Magazine, volume XL, number 4 (August 1890) pages 483-500 (at page 483)
1890s
Source: Arun Sharma Sachin's my inspiration - he's also excellent at tennis: Sania Mirza http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/interviews/Sachins-my-inspiration-hes-also-excellent-at-tennis-Sania-Mirza/articleshow/26167479.cms, The Times of India, 22 November 2013
In Outdoor Life, February 1913.
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Jewish Problem
Source: The Unfinished Autobiography (1951), Chapter II, Part 1
Propylaea (1798) Introduction
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter I, Sec. 3
Speech, Queen's Hall, London (19 September 1914)
Chancellor of the Exchequer
About his switch to a vegetarian diet. "Vegetarianism all the rage in MMA" https://www.yahoo.com/news/vegetarianism-rage-mma-145900165--mma.html, interview with Yahoo! Sports (18 February 2011).
Source: Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage (1969), CHAPTER 8, Centennial summer, p. 196 (On Canada...)
“When you reach your peak its time to die.”
GG Allin on The Jane Whitney Show July 16. 1993.
On The Jane Whitney Show
“Ambition displeases when it has been sated… Having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.”
L'ambition déplaît quand elle est assouvie... Monté sur le faîte, il aspire à descendre.
Auguste, act II, scene i.
Cinna (1641)
Source: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 4 (p. 284)
Source: First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process (2009), p. 19
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook L (1793-1796)
"Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg," Tendencies in Modern American Poetry http://books.google.com/books?id=UgZaAAAAMAAJ (1917).
On the SARS epidemic, as quoted in " A Visit to My Kitchen: Vandana Shiva http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/a-visit-to-my-kitchen-van_b_775298.html?ir=India&adsSiteOverride=in", The Huffington Post (28 October 2011)
Source: 1890s, The Mountains of California (1894), chapter 1: The Sierra Nevada
“Libertarianism, Violence within States, and the Polarity Principle,” Comparative Politics, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Jul., 1984), pp. 443-462. Published by Comparative Politics, Ph.D. Programs in Political Science, City University of New York.
Source: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 131-132
http://www.gamespot.com/features/sidlegacy/interview.html
The Way of Restoration http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Books/sm-gww/GWW-07.htm, (April, 1972)
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.243-244
1920s, Second State of the Union Address (1924)
Jorn's quote, on the publication of the book Thidrek of Folk Art (1948)
1949 - 1958, Various sources