Quotes about Summit

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Jack London

Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Harold B. Melchart

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's a difficult situation here. We're too close (to Summit County) to be far, and too far to be close. We're the epitome of a bedroom community.

James Gardner

It is not the end, just the beginning, but the homework is enormous, ... The summit itself ended, but many, many meetings, action and partnership programs must start.

Yoshio Utsumi

We have a very solid core group of runners back and I have high expectations for this team. I'm also very excited about Evan Apple, an incoming freshman. He ran for Summit Ridge, and was undefeated at the middle school level. He could be our number two runner as a freshman.

Mike Callor

This kind of heavy-handed behavior shows why Sudan was not the right country to hold the summit and also shows the president of Sudan isn't the correct person to lead the African Union.

Reed Brody

This Half Note material really comes at a summit, ... It's the high point of a sound that the band had been cultivating, basically, since 1961. The music that was recorded there comes at the strongest point of that band, playing that sound. Right after that, they start changing and going other places.

John Coltrane

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.

Maimonides

If we can get fifth or sixth we'll be doing well. There's no way we'll beat Aspen, Summit or Vail Mountain School, but if we can stay ahead of Battle Mountain, that'll be great. For a bunch of kids who train for two-and-a-half months out of the year, they do great, and I'm real proud of them.

Glen Ewing

President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.

Conan O'brien

The summit is up for grabs right now, and we cannot let this chance slip away.

Caroline Green

There is very little to celebrate in the latest U.N. summit outcome document. We wanted a bold agenda to tackle poverty but instead we have a brochure showcasing past commitments.

Nicola Reindorp

We should overcome the various issues and mutually take the risk to hold a summit meeting.

Hidenao Nakagawa

Our channel partners are critical to our success and we like to recognize and reward our top performers. Last week, at our annual Partner Summit, I had the privilege of recognizing our top channel partner performers for 2005. I would like to congratulate Nexus IS on an award-winning year.

Chuck Robbins

The best birthday gift to our Organization is for all of us, the members of the global community, to translate our leaders' commitments at the 2005 World Summit into concrete action to the benefit of the peoples of the world.

Jan Eliasson

We did not receive any official confirmation from the Syrian capital on whether President Assad will head the Syrian delegation to the United Nations Summit that will open on Sept. 14.

Fayssal Mekdad

On the question of whether (the summit) will...be making a specific decision ... on raising or lowering production, there is no such intention.

Bijan Zanganeh

In Africa, farmers can buy a soda in nearly every village but can't find basic tools to improve productivity. But the problem is not insurmountable ? solutions do exist. The Summit is an opportunity for Africa to change the direction of its agriculture to improve the lives of millions.

Judith Rodin

It just goes to show why Sudan was not the right place to hold this summit.

Reed Brody

This will be a summit about employment and economic development, not about Austria.

Antonio Guterres

IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of worth in others. There was once a man in Ispahan Ever and ever so long ago, And he had a head, the phrenologists said, That fitted him for a show. For his modesty's bump was so large a lump (Nature, they said, had taken a freak) That its summit stood far abov.

Ambrose Bierce

None will reach the more ambitious (1996) World Food Summit goal of halving the number of hungry people.

Jacques Diouf

There's a lot of breast thumping as leaders take up their negotiation positions, and certainly Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder have indicated that this summit could turn into a real standoff.

Robin Oakley

[Friends of the Earth International is also critical of the high corporate profile at the summit.] Big business has got hold of the puppet strings behind the scenes, ... I think it's quite obvious whose PR is treated as most summit-friendly.

Tony Juniper

Agreements on measures designed to help stop future genocides and on reforms to the United Nations will go right down to the wire. The UK is a key negotiator and must do whatever it can to save the United Nations summit from failure. This includes standing up to the US and the Non-Aligned Movement who are set to block key measures like those designed to prevent future genocides.

Jo Leadbeater

One recommendation from the summit was to focus on supporting parents and helping them talk about issues like violence with children. Our research shows that there is a window of opportunity with preadolescents when they're most receptive to messages from their parents.

Christina Hoff Sommers

We hope that all of these (talks) will be done and out of the way by the time Vietnam hosts the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit in November.

Matthew Daley

This summit is necessary to shape policy and help us. We need to know what you see and experience everyday in the community, in the schools and in your neighborhoods. This is a way to help us better coordinate city services.

Ludwig P. Gaines

High-speed broadband access is the electricity of the 21st century, yet many rural and poorer urban communities are being left off the grid. The innovators and organizers at the National Summit for Community Wireless Networks are blazing the trail to make broadband affordable and available to everyone.

Ben Scott

Arafat is our interlocutor, as EU leaders said at the Barcelona summit on March 16. He remains our interlocutor and the legitimate authority.

Cristina Gallach

There was no dissent because none was allowed. The entire summit was simply a method for those elected and appointed officials who were there to pat themselves on the back. They are not looking for alternatives.

George Taplin

The road to peace is a very long road that has many milestones. If indeed the summit ended in failure it is our duty to ensure that it is not the last summit, and to leave the door open for dialogue, because the alternative is war.

Avraham Burg

This summit is a huge test for Russia.

Douglas Alexander

I'm not sending a minister because I don't expect it to be an effective summit.

Clare Short

It is a rather broad, flat summit so there is not likely to be one good place for a single 360-degree panorama. We might do several panoramas from several spots on the borders of the summit plateau.

William Farrand

We will probably examine both the sandy deposits and rocks in the summit area. Perhaps our greatest opportunity to understand how Husband Hill formed will come when we examine the rocky units that orbital images indicate might adorn the southern flanks of the hill.

David Des Marais

The purpose is to get the other side of the story. The ONDCP is trying to push for student drug-testing at the summit and to convince these schools to take these grants. It's against civil liberties and it should be put in the hands of the parents and not the school system.

Christina Kimball

Each year the Georgia Life Sciences Summit sets a new attendance record, ... Escalating enthusiasm for the Summit reflects the dramatic growth of the state's bioscience industry and its impact far beyond Georgia. The 2005 Summit will be the best ever, showcasing advanced science and R&D at Georgia's publicly traded and privately held companies and the state's world-class universities.

Charles Craig

It (his visit) means something, but any issue should and will be resolved through both side's governmental channels. But his visit will certainly assist in solving recent pending issues like North Korea's nuclear issue and create a good atmosphere for the next inter-Korean summit later this year.

Koh Yu Hwan

Less than 48 hours from the beginning of the summit there remains real risk that major agreements will be blocked by a small number of countries that seem determined to block the summit's success. These include Pakistan, Egypt, Iran, Syria, Venezuela and Cuba.

Nicola Reindorp

Their presentations will reflect this experience, ensuring the Summit is truly relevant for local business leaders who operate in both a global and African context as well as government leaders. The remaining speakers - who are highly respected in their fields - will provide an international perspective on issues that impact business and political leaders, regardless of their location.

Tina Schneidermann

We are within sight of the summit.

Larry Crumpler

Twenty-five percent of all the center's patients come from Summit County. And you can't do that drive alone.

Cheryl Jensen

Both rovers continue to be in superb health. It has been just a remarkable mission and I would say we literally feel on top of the world right now being on the summit of Husband Hill.

Steve Squyres

Billy Sparks is a great addition to our team. He brings experiences that will benefit the Health Sciences Center at a time when our mission is growing and we are implementing the recommendations that came out of our recent Health Care Summit.

Paul Roth

I don't think there is going to be any significant outcome from a big summit as WSIS. But I really hope that there would be some consensus on Internet governance.

Kiran Karnik

Last summer, President Bush and other world leaders promised debt cancellation to the world's most impoverished countries. But a proposal before the World Bank this week would needlessly delay cancellation for at least two years from last year's G-8 summit for more than half of those countries eligible.

Neil Watkins

The bottom line is we're going to have a fair election in Summit County. The problem is we're going to have to count a lot of ballots.

Dwayne Jones

This week's summit will be the single largest gathering of world leaders in human history. If world leaders rise to their responsibilities, the rebirth and renewal of the UN will be at hand. With its renewal, we will also renew our hope for a fairer and safer world.

Shashi Tharoor

Tonight we brought our hiking boots, ... Tomorrow and every day for the next five months, we need to climb this mountain. It's not going to be easy, and it's not going to be quick, but we can get to the summit.

Mike Taylor

We found that our wilderness and bordering areas in Summit County are not as bad as we had feared.

Currie Craven

It would be a failure if we don't come up with something and do something, ... The governor and I are committed to taking the information received here (at the summit) and putting together some sort of transportation initiative.

Gary Herbert

Hermiston is the team to beat again and Summit will be kind of a darkhorse.

Josh Davis

[Jeanette] was one of the four great black boxers of the early 1900s, and he owned a boxing gym on 26th Street and Summit Avenue. Jeanette Street between Summit Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard is named for him.

Kathie Pontus

All these activities will create a favorable atmosphere for the impending Sino-US summit.

Fu Mengzi

All of this is based upon the Summit County lie. This is all rumor and innuendo from a political crony of Ohio's last political boss.

Bob Paduchik

The fact that [the summit] is happening at all, the fact that people in these sub-tribes see a need to come together and speak to each other says something in itself.

Eric Raymond

We will continue shouldering the responsibility for serving the interests of the summit and the people of Africa.

Eljahwi Ibrahim Malik

Very quietly, Bush got an endorsement of 29 of the 34 Summit of the Americas countries, ... He met with presidents from Central America Free Trade Agreement-Dominican Republic countries and reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to CAFTA. So I'm a little hesitant to say this was all a defeat for Bush.

Eduardo Gamarra

All those experiences are brought to the table, and suddenly it all fits perfectly. I'm very happy to be playing in Summit, because the music is very fresh, very spontaneous. Even though it's composed, there's a lot of room to take it somewhere different than we were yesterday.

Zakir Hussain