Reaching Quotes - Page 31

• 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.

  Allen Tate

  Shadow, Shade, Fit

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.73, Macmillan

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• We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Computer, Problem, Stage

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• ... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.

  Rebecca West

  Beautiful, Eye, Errors

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.139, Open Road Media

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• It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Agreement, Law, Ideas

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• From the beginning moments of life, the urges for each of us to become a self in the world are there--in the liveliness of our innate growth energies, in the vitality of our stiffening-away muscles, in our looking eyes, our listening ears, our reaching-out hands.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Eye, Listening Ear

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death's-head formation in readiness, for the present only in the East, with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

  Adolf Hitler

  Time, Children, War

  Speech at Obersalzberg, August 22, 1939.

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• There are two ways of reaching the people. One way is to invite them to come to you, the other way is to go to them.

  R. A. Torrey

  Two, People, Way

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• Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter.

  Henry Anatole Grunwald

  Education, Teaching, Failure

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• I want to be really proactive in working with the progressive business community in Australia and also reaching out to rural and regional Australia in order to assist in the sustainability crisis and the food security crisis.

  Christine Milne

  Order, Australia, Community

  "Milne baulks at more bucks for big business". "The World Today" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. April 16, 2012.

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• The woman who does her job for society inside the four walls of her home must not be considered by her husband or anyone else an economic "dependent," reaching out her hands in mendicant fashion for financial help.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Marriage, Fashion, Jobs

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• Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war.... The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.

  Thomas Huxley

  War, Animal, Land

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• And in reaching out and doing these new things you get into this strange kind of shape where you are better off than if you were just resting, because you're using things that wouldn't otherwise be mute.

  George Hamilton

  Shapes, Strange, Kind

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The most important thing to me is my work, and reaching people through my work. It's so important to me. It's my passion.

  Adelaide Kane

  Passion, People, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• President Obama's been reaching out to Iran, reaching out to Cuba, reaching out to Latin America. The only place he can't seem to be able to reach out to: Texas. ... Despite Governor Rick Perry talking about how Texas could secede from the Union if it wanted to, 75 per cent of the people who live there want to stay in the United States. Of course they want to stay. I mean, after spending all that time and effort sneaking across the border to get here, why would they want to leave?

  Jay Leno

  Latin, Mean, America

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• Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, People, Social

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.98, Penguin

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• Yeah, I'm going to go back (after hitting his 500th home run, but commenting on reaching the 3,000 hit plateau) to my Punch-and-Judy days, hit the ball the other way, start bunting the ball a little bit.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Running, Home, Littles

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• The dying boy said: " Father, don't you weep for me; when I get to heaven I will go straight to Jesus and tell Him that ever since I can remember you have tried to lead me to Him." I would rather have my children say that of me after I am gone; or if they die before me, I would rather they should take that message to the Master than to have a monument over me reaching to the skies.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Children, Father

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 52), 1895.

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• Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Wickedness, Succeed

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• Man seeks answers from afar
  Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets
  but has not even gone into the silence of his being

  Rajneesh

  Moon, Men, Silence

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• Which is more worthwhile earning: a large fortune or the esteem and gratitude of the nation? This question is prompted anew by the death of ex-Secretary of the Interior [Franklin K.] Lane. He remained in public service, doing most noble work, until his means became absolutely exhausted, and he died before having had the opportunity to reaccumulate any bank account.... He died leaving no estate whatsoever. Is what he did leave more to be desired, more to be coveted, than a fortune reaching into six or seven figures?

  B. C. Forbes

  Gratitude, Mean, Opportunity

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• At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

  Amanda Harlech

  Home, Wind, Silence

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• When I was a kid, three years old, I couldn't walk by the piano without reaching up and trying to play a few notes on it. There are kids who are just drawn to listening to music and dancing to it and trying to conduct.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Kids, Years, Play

  "The Superconductor: SF Symphony’s Michael Tilson Thomas". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2010.

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• If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Rocks, Use

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks on Post-‘Cosmos’". Front Row Features Interview, frontrowfeatures.com. June 8, 2014.

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• Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  "Transcript: Barack Obama and The God Factor Interview" by Cathleen Falsani, sojo.net. February 21, 2012.

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• Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes. They're belief systems that keep you from being able to become all that you are intended to become. They're impediments to reaching God-realization, or Tao-centeredness. People lose track of their purpose, because they are so back there - living in their past. Byron Katie speaks about this: Who would you be without your story? Carlos Castaneda used to say if you don't have a story, you don't have to live up to it. So get rid of your story.

  Wayne Dyer

  Past, People, Track

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