Approaching Quotes
293 quotes by 267 authors
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Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So…
— Ayn Rand
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If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.
— Jodi Picoult
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching…
— Leon Trotsky
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I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush…
— Nick Hornby
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Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it…
— Jason Mraz
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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . .…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I…
— Joseph Conrad
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This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling…
— Brandon Mull
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Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful than any politician?…
— Roger Ebert
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You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in…
— Annie Dillard
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The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling…
— Carl Sagan
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Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the…
— Flann O'Brien
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Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing…
— Lester Bangs
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i'm beginning to feel like this. caught the incredible sunshine just in the nick of time today on my walk. the wall of rain approaching…
— Richard Avedon
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When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations…
— Dean Koontz
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This whole time, my whole life, that harsh, stony path was leading up to this one point. I followed it blindly, stumbling along the way,…
— Tabitha Suzuma
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At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death…
— Banana Yoshimoto
Who Wrote These Approaching Quotes
267 authors contributed a total of 293 Approaching Quotes, led by these top contributors: