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  • Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

    Men   Luxury   Too Late  
    George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1782). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.486
  • Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

    Passion   Love Is   Men  
    William John Locke (2012). “Jaffery”, p.263, tredition
  • ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light

    Light   Poetry   Noon  
  • Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons.

    New York   Lunch   Four  
  • I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

  • Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

    Peace   Perfection   Mind  
  • Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

  • Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I also just couldn't resist throwing in the disruptive. It seems to me that art-house film is at its glorious zenith right now, maybe it can even get better? There's just so many good films, you know Cemetery Of Splendour, Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes, just so much great work coming out.

    Art   Night   House  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith to the horizon the still-dim Milky Way stretched its double strand. Night, fresh and quiet, almost unstirring, enveloped the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the church gleamed in the sapphire sky. The luxuriant autumn asleep till morning. The silence of the earth seemed to merge with the silence of the heavens and the mystery of the earth touched the mystery of the stars.

    Morning   Stars   Autumn  
    Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.362, Macmillan
  • Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

    Men   Weakness   Nadir  
    Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.421
  • The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems, that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view.

    1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 17 July 1980, Detroit, MI
  • Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities of another world. And they draw the interest of delight and refreshment according to the measure of their investment. These are usually quaint folk, other-worldly in their manner, but capable of comprehending the idiosyncrasies of Nature as she displays them in a tree and bush and passing season, across the skyline and in the infinite zenith. These, moreover, are the successful gardeners.

  • There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.

    Desire   Vices   Add  
  • Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

    Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”
  • In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet.

    Moon   Space   Heaven  
    Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.19, Michael O'Mara Books
  • ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.

    Men   Heaven   Growing  
    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.241, 谷月社
  • The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them, and as Rantel approached the hollow at the hem of the Twisted Woods he was treading in a pool of his own midnight.

    Moon   Feet   Shadow  
    Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books
  • The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.

    Rumor   Zenith   Firsts  
    Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney (2013). “Command Authority”, p.298, Penguin
  • I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy.

    Success   Time   Zenith  
  • The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a state of repose... Like a projectile flying to its goal, life ends in death. Even its ascent and its zenith are only steps and means to this goal... For, enlightenment or no enlightenment, consciousness or no consciousness, nature prepares itself for death.

    Death   Mean   Curves  
  • When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away from the idea of the person. It was: let's talk about the ideas behind the work, and the people matter less. It was kind of a gimmicky thing, but lots of feminist women were doing it. Many of us took the names of our female ancestors - bell hooks is my maternal great grandmother - to honor them and debunk the notion that we were these unique, exceptional women. We wanted to say, actually, we were the products of the women who'd gone before us.

    Source: nefac.net
  • If you ask me, the hypothetical zenith of gaming technology is direct neural interface - no body to hamper you and your brain is in whatever you want it to be in. Plus it leads to existential uncertainty, which could be entertaining.

  • Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.

    Fall   Light   Blood  
  • The whole east was flecked With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst, While a light crimson mist Went up before the mounting luminary, And all the strips of cloud began to vary Their hues, and all the zenith seemed to ope As if to show a cope beyond the cope!

    Clouds   Light   Sunrise  
  • From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

    Summer   Stars   Fall  
    Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 742 (1667)
  • I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do."

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.

    Giving   Zenith   Way  
  • I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

    "Drawing Parallels Between Ancient Rome and the U.S. Today". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 22, 2006.
  • American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

  • Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

    Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.344, GENERAL PRESS
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