Approaching Quotes

293 quotes by 267 authors

She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through… — Nora Roberts
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children. — Arthur C. Clarke
They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily… — Daphne du Maurier
Ordinarily, I am the person who falls in love quickly and somewhat inappropriately and then goes on to destroy what is a good thing. That's… — Sarah Dunn
And knowing that the only alternative to your grief is the nothingness thatâ€™s fast approaching, you try to embrace your own sorrow, to be open… — Ron Currie Jr.
But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of… — Cormac McCarthy
An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a… — C.S. Lewis
I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even… — Anne Carson
Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that… — Jeff Lindsay
Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. — George Orwell
If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here. — Rachel Maddow
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining. — Alan Moore
Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying? — Orhan Pamuk
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply canâ€™t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting… — Anne Frank
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance… — Walker Percy
There are videos where I would go approaching strangers and sing the songs from 'The Lion King. I would have been about four years, and… — Taylor Swift
Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous,… — Anna Akhmatova

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