Top Quotes

The roughest road often leads to the top. (Christina Aguilera)
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. View quote
Matthew Henry
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. View quote
Alan Kay
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes. View quote
Emo Philips
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach. View quote
Jascha Heifetz
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. View quote
Alex Haley
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. (Napoleon Hill)
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. View quote
Leon Trotsky
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends. View quote
Boris Yeltsin
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. View quote
Albert Camus
My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent. View quote
Tommy Douglas
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. View quote
H. L. Mencken
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course. View quote
Stephen Spender
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority. View quote
Angela Merkel
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career. View quote
Abdul Kalam
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." (Lyndon B. Johnson)
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I'm happy to belong to this group of top champions having excelled here. View quote
Hermann Maier
I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine. View quote
Carol Vorderman
Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers. View quote
W. Averell Harriman