Reaching Quotes - Page 37

• I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

  Arsenio Hall

  Dream, Down And, Failing

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• I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

  Kamala Harris

  Mother, Home, Opportunity

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• America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

  Herbert Hoover

  America, Presidential, Purpose

  Letter toWilliam E. Borah, 23 Feb. 1928.

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• Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Blessed, Goal, Age

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• People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Religious, Pursuit Of Happiness, Race

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• The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Real, Different

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• I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend's shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on one of Anita Pallenberg's blouses, or Courtney Love putting nail polish on Kurt Cobain.

  Marc Jacobs

  Girl, Morning, Guy

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• 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.

  Bill James

  People, Trials, Radio

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• And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

  Etta James

  Men, Nerves, Done

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

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Years, Long, Movement

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• We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Children, Together, Shows

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• From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.

  Lucy Larcom

  Baby, Eye, Light

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

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• After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Roots, Wonder, Life Is

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• By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business.

  Harvey Mackay

  Agreement, Small Steps, Way

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• More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Responsibility, Issues, Environmental

  Simon Mainwaring (2011). “We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World”, p.126, Macmillan

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• 'Obamacare,' as it's been called, is far too reaching. It's overreaching. It needs to have a lot of it repealed.

  Joe Manchin

  Obamacare, Needs, Overreaching

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• If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch.

  Marisa Miller

  Yummy, Pie, Scratches

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• A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.

  George Muller

  Children, Blessing, Years

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• I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

  Brittany Murphy

  Memories, Cities, People

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• It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

  Ted Nugent

  Self, Abraham, Brands

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• And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character, Fire, Doors

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Leadership, Responsibility, Psychology

  Stanley Milgram (2017). “Obedience to Authority”, p.8, HarperCollins

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• Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Reach Out, Creatures, Breaths

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• That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of the soul. You can do it with a toaster, you can do it with a poem, you can do it by reaching out your hand to a stranger. It doesn't matter what form it takes. To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

  Paul Auster

  Men, Hands, Soul

  Paul Auster (2008). “Collected Novels”

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• My right hand was sort of casually near my gun, without looking like I was reaching for my gun. It wasn't easy. Reaching for a gun usually looks like reaching for a gun. No one seemed to notice though. Goody for our side.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Gun, Hands, Sides

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.53, Penguin

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