Quotes About Reaching The Summit

#1. Reaching the summit of K2 was an incredible experience, but I would trade it in a heartbeat to have Dan back.

Susan Oakey-Baker

#2. I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.

John Sexton

#3. There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

Lois Lowry

#4. Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell Clayton

#5. Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.

Erik Weihenmayer

#6. No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.

Mark Doty

#7. Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#8. Ships feare fire more then water.
[Ships fear fire more than water.]

George Herbert

#9. I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

Steven Hill

#10. Straight is my path. Straight is my mind. Straight is my heart. Straight is my speech. Kind will I be to my brothers and sisters. Kind will I be to beast and bird.

William Kent Krueger

#11. We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the summit. Like those climbers, we were motivated by a fear far greater than death - the fear of not reaching the top.

Mike Mullane

#12. Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Joel Osteen

#13. That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

Elvis Presley

#14. Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

Michel Faber

#15. I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.

Helen Thomas

#16. Are you sure?" he asked in a low voice. "Because if I had the chance ... I would spend every moment of every day with you.

Alexandra Monir