Reach Quotes - page 4

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only a human can reach for the stars or even know what that means. (Vilayanur S. Ramachandran)
From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men. View quote
William Wordsworth
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. View quote
Arthur Ashe
Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul The mind 's the standard of the man. View quote
Isaac Watts
If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace. View quote
Ariel Sharon
The trouble with you John, is that your spine does not reach your brain. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach. (J. D. Salinger)
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. View quote
Arthur Miller
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. View quote
Haim Ginott
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. even of people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, he said, it had to be fought for. View quote
Colum McCann
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
The steps in front must be arranged so that there shall always be an odd number of them; for thus the right foot, with which one mounts the first step, will also be the first to reach the level of the temple itself. View quote
Vitruvius
Architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance. But those who have a thorough knowledge of both, like men armed at all points, have the sooner attained their object and carried authority with them. View quote
Vitruvius
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived. (M. Scott Peck)
Building a solid foundation in the early years of a child's life will not only help him or her reach their full potential but will also result in better societies as a whole. View quote
Novak Djokovic
People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace? View quote
Ricardo Semler
To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach. View quote
Teresa Medeiros
When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race. View quote
Hermann Maier