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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers. (W. Averell Harriman)
Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore, I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication. View quote
Groucho Marx
There is always room at the top. View quote
Daniel Webster
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right. View quote
Tyra Banks
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. View quote
Timothy Leary
I want to hang a map of the world in my house, and then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map, so it won't fall down. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it. View quote
Cicely Tyson
I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds. View quote
Joan Rivers
While standing on top of Everest, I looked across the valley, towards the other great peak, Makalu, and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed... it showed me that, even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything for me, by any means. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges. View quote
Edmund Hillary
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. (James A. Garfield)
In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. View quote
Virginia Woolf
From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature. View quote
James Russell Lowell
There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment. View quote
Steven Gerrard
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. View quote
Frank Herbert
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. View quote
Edward Abbey
Since such very powerful kings have not disdained walls built of brick, although... they might often have had them not only of masonry or dimension stone but even of marble, I think that one ought not to reject buildings made of brick-work, provided that they are properly "topped." View quote
Vitruvius
I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time. (Michel Patini)
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. View quote
Saskya Pandita
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. View quote
Tadao Ando
When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data. The only thing you want is to come back alive. View quote
Felix Baumgartner
Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on. View quote
Charlotte Gainsbourg
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