Glenn Greenwald

The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point of asylum is to find a country that's both willing and able to protect you from political persecution. In no way is asylum an endorsement of a country's politics, laws, or values.

American Journalist

Patrick Stewart

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

English Actor

Sandra Bullock

Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.

American Actress

Scottie Pippen

I've played basketball all of my life, and I've had things happen on the court that you eventually have to move on from. It's part of some of the obstacles that you meet in trying to reach your pinnacle.

American Athlete

John Strachan

At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.

Canadian Clergyman

Ben Carson

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

American Scientist

Sam Allardyce

Football is to be enjoyed and I've enjoyed my life in football for many years, it's the pinnacle of my career and I want to enjoy it the most.

English Businessman

Jason Momoa

After 'Game of Thrones,' having a character like that, that's like the pinnacle of your career.

American Actor

Katarina Johnson-Thompson

I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.

English Athlete

Philipp Meyer

Cornell changed my life; getting in there was one of my pinnacle moments.

American Writer

Used to describe the highest achievement or most successful point in various contexts.

Metaphorical Usage

Often carries a positive connotation, reflecting admiration or respect for the achievement.

Positive Connotation

Use for truly significant achievements or high points, not for everyday successes.

Not Hyperbolic

Refers to a specific geological feature that is visibly pointed and tall.

Physical Landform

Implies a landmark that is striking or outstanding in the landscape.

Impressive Landmarks

Climbing a pinnacle can symbolize a difficult, yet rewarding, goal in climbing or hiking.

Challenging Objective

 When Stephen reached the pinnacle, he rested on a platform of crisscrossing branches and needles. Growing in the soil mat was a huckleberry bush with ripe berries! He ate some and waited for his friend. Stephen had discovered a new world hundreds of feet above the ground.

What's hidden among the...

 from making the wrong choice. Let's face the way I wanted my tea was inappropriate according to cultural standards, and they were doing their best to help me save face. Americans tend to believe that they've reached some sort of pinnacle in the way they practice choice.

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 I mean -- quite literally, the doorstop. And I asked them and they said, "Oh, we don't actually have electricity, so this piece of junk is good as a doorstop." Centrifuges, for some of you who don't know, are the pinnacle tool to be able to do sample processing.

Lifesaving scientific...

 We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help to create for us. But, you know, we have become obsessed with this linear narrative. And probably the pinnacle for education is getting you to college.

Bring on the learning...

 mean by that is that if you've been raised on a diet of mythology that said that you were the exceptional nation the essential nation that you were the at the pinnacle of societal and democratic achievement that somehow another your inheritance

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 why AlphaGo was doing what it was doing. And things are moving really fast. I mean, consider -- in the space of a human lifetime, computers have gone from a child's game to what's recognized as the pinnacle of strategic thought.

The incredible...

 So, one needs a very deep appreciation of the diversity and incredible scale of life on this planet as the first step in preparing to make contact with life elsewhere in the cosmos. We are not the pinnacle of evolution.

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 actually as the ultimate solution today, of the universe as we know it. It's the pinnacle, it's the final product that the universe has produced. It was so successful in evolution

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 Many generations have felt they've reached the pinnacle of technological advancement, yet look back 100 years, and the technologies we take for granted today

Pinnacle