Reaching Quotes

I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.

Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching air. They suffer from mood disorders, troubled relationships, and stress. They may even achieve less than others.

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.

There are so many people afraid of a task. They get so overwhelmed by the obstacles in front of them that they shy away from reaching beyond a position of safety.

We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God.

The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.

When I’m reaching an audience, I feel it.

You realize, this is not just a little studio we go to make these television episodes. This thing is reaching everybody in the world! Suddenly you realize the power of television.

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

Security is not a static thing. Security would only lie in a man's confidence in reaching his goals and, indeed, in his having goals to reach.

The man who built the manger had a purpose in mind... God had another. You'll never know how far reaching God's plan is for your work.

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

Never stop taking risks. Just keep reaching.

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.

Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.

I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.

Constantly working outward, putting system after system inside the known universe, they were the bright hungry wave of mankind reaching out to gather in the stars.

I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is reaching a frightening pitch.

The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts.

There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

It would have been better if I had won, but reaching the final was perfect.

The thing I always say is that I wasn't going out reaching for roles, I wasn't fighting for roles - people came to me. They always came to me.

In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president.

We may be reaching the end of the liberal world order.

I thought of reaching out for progressive Israelis, progressive Americans, progressive American Jews - this was probably my main mission.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

We don't know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we're clearly reaching close to some of them.

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven.

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that.

I enjoy looking at your face... Whenever I look at your face, a question always comes to my mind... Will man ever succeed in reaching the moon?

Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.

Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.

She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man

I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.

I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.

As you warm to the ideas expressed in Total Recall, you find yourself reaching for your digital camera to record the moment just gone by.

Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.

I've always wanted children... not of my own, but for yard work and reaching into tight places to get things I've dropped.