Quotes About Reaching

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

The nature of reaching, the nature of whispered entreaties, a thousand variations on the same invitation, is that both the reaching of hands and the question in question invariably lead to moments of complete incompleteness. Because the upshot of coupling is uncoupling. The essence of association is disassociation. Because you can fuck till you're blue, but at a certain point the inevitable nightly drawing apart happens for good. [Walt Kaplan/23 Kaplan's Furniture]

Capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.' You

'Animal Kingdom' feels like a suburban Melbourne version of 'The Godfather 'to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and yet you still feel like you can reach out and touch it.

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

Sometimes risk taking may involve the most simple of acts. Yet we often whip up a bag full of excuses to avoid taking action. For goodness sake, let's step beyond our security bubbles and start reaching out to those who cross our path.

As mile by mile is seen No trespasser's reproach, And love's best glasses reach No fields but are his own.

The wind lifts the whole branch of the poplar carries it up and out and holds it there while each leaf is the whole tree reaching from its roots in the dark earth out through all its rings of memory to where it has never been

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger—and there really has to be, because plainly you aren't sufficient to the situation. I surely wasn't. Ian

I noticed I'd been leaning against something hard and metallic. It was another skull switch, just begging to be flicked. I started reaching for it but Arlene butted my hand away with her shotgun. That hurt. "You don't know what that's going to do," she protested. "I can't help it . . . I'm a born lever-puller." I flicked the tongue.

The trick is to choose a goal just beyond your present abilities; to target the struggle. Thrashing blindly doesn't help. Reaching does.

What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.

Reaching out and touching hearts is what flowers are all about - a caring, responsive gift with a lasting impact.

It was so fast. So fast. One minute she was reaching, reaching, almost touching the center of ecstasy itself. The next she was convulsing with something so hot with throbbing pleasure that it was almost pain. An inhuman cry tore out of her throat as she went up like a Chinese rocket and exploded into a million flaming pieces of pure joy.

At first the boys were puzzled by illness. They looked at their father from the other side of a wall of pain, bewildered that their father stood writing in his book, when he had only to reach over the division and lift them clear of it.

He felt her mind reaching into shadows, scanning the nightfall for danger. He leaned back in the air and released his body, then blended into the darkness beneath the low-hanging branches of a tree. "I'm your only danger now," he whispered.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.

The treaty, however, did not contain an article dealing directly with runaway slaves reaching Texas.166 Most likely, this was because agreements concerning slavery were such a sensitive issue that they could derail critical territorial negotiations.

Her eyes brown in places that brown could only dream of reaching.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Respect God: Pray working. Pray learning, planning, doing. Pray creating, teaching, reaching. Pray working. Pray to focus your thoughts, still your fears, strengthen your purpose. Respect God. Shape God. Pray working. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING