Approach Quotes

2053 Approach quotes by 1610 unique authors

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into… — Elwyn Brooks White
I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero. — Scott Adams
Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color.… — Eduardo Galeano
Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet… — Federico Garcia Lorca
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often… — Arthur C. Clarke
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of… — Arthur C. Clarke
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their… — C.S. Lewis
I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. — E. M. Forster
No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily… — Edgar Allan Poe
The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror — Gustave Flaubert
I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they… — C.S. Lewis
I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love.… — Roberto Bolano
Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in… — Jonathan Kozol
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though… — Ralph Ellison
Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the… — Paulo Coelho
[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively… — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers… — Jeremy Narby
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All… — Abraham Lincoln
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without… — Chip Kidd
Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and… — Tony Dungy
I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to.… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any… — Ambrose Bierce
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or the… — Italo Calvino
Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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