Apex Quotes

• There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Pyramids, Moments, Crisis

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• A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

  Alan Dean Foster

  Emptiness

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• If it's real enlightenment...you're dealing with someone who's broken through every rule, every barrier, every do and do not, and they've reached an apex of consciousness. They've broken through all the conditioning, all the timidity. They don't buy into any program.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Real, Broken

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• Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Poverty, Affluence

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• Look at my big teeth. I'm an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome

  Ilona Andrews

  Teeth, Looks, Predator

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• The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Triangles, Fame

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned

  Simon Bolivar

  Fall, Greatness, Darkness

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• If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)… Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be.

  Murray Bookchin

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  "The Ecology of Freedom". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1982.

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• Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Skills, Retiring, Pursue

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• Spiritual adoption is the excellency and apex of God's salvation.

  Joel Beeke

  Spiritual, Adoption, Salvation

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• Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

  Colin Farrell

  Life Is, Decline, Discussion

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• As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Philosophy, Pyramids, Tower Of Babel

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• The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Past, Evolution, Individual

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

  Lucy Freeman

  Murder, Ultimate, Megalomania

  Lucy Freeman (1955). “"Before I Kill More ..."”

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• In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Humility, Men, Christianity

  "Created for Significance". Book by Ravi Zacharias, February 20, 1992.

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• Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Circles, Pyramids, Anarchy

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.158, Oxford University Press

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• So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

  Steve Irwin

  People, Tactics, Predator

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• If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex of its development; if they can be made to understand that the conflicts and contradictions of society can only be resolved by scientific long-range planning-then we will succeed in maintaining what civilization we have and drive onward to greater culture.

  Joost Meerloo

  Confused, Men, Civilization

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• Vampires smiled for many reasons, but when a vampire male smiled at you from this distance with that kind of look in his eyes it was done for one purpose only: to impress. Look at my big teeth. I’m an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome.

  Ilona Andrews

  Distance, Eye, Vampire

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• A massive beast dashed along the mountain apex. Astamur reached for his rifle. “A demon?” “No, not a demon.” I might have preferred one . “That’s my boyfriend.” Atsany and the shepherd turned to look at me. “Boyfriend?” Astamur said. Curran saw us. He paused on a stone crag and roared. The raw declaration of strength cracked through the mountains, rolling down the cliffs like a rockslide. “Yep. Don’t worry. He’s harmless.

  Ilona Andrews

  Worry, My Boyfriend, Mountain

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• I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.

  Tadao Ando

  America, Culture, World

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• The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible.

  George Polya

  Science, Anxiety, World

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• The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Different, Triangles

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

  Mary Antin

  Morning, School, Pride

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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