Reached Quotes
1393 Reached quotes by 1030 unique authors
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It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers…
— Samuel Johnson
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Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight…
— Jeannette Walls
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As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached…
— Kristin Lehman
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I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency.
— Roh Moo-hyun
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Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I…
— Amy Hempel
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Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists.…
— Ludwig Quidde
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I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some…
— David Rubenstein
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Obama had reached out to the business community, they just haven't liked all of his decisions and some of his rhetoric. But generally, I think…
— David Rubenstein
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Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.
— Johnny Ramone
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Plants can help you they have a very strong vibrational force. If you've made friends with several of them, they will come and aid you…
— Frederick Lenz
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People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.
— J.K. Simmons
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If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.
— Jason Segel
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Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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It is not that God is stingy and must be coaxed, for He "giveth liberally and upbraideth not." It is that we ourselves are so…
— Vance Havner
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For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between…
— Maximus the Confessor
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When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has been…
— Maximus the Confessor
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I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change.
— Stacy London
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I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as…
— Ernst Mayr
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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
— Fidel Castro
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