Reaching Quotes

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My right hand was sort of casually near my gun, without looking like I was reaching for my gun. It wasn't easy. Reaching for a… — Laurell K. Hamilton
It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching. — Theodore Roosevelt
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take… — Banana Yoshimoto
...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief. — Jose Saramago
Thatâ€™s why it is important to enjoy the journey not just the destination. In this world, we will never arrive at a place where everything… — Joel Osteen
If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is… — Stephen King
The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros.… — Jerry Spinelli
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative… — John Keats
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.… — Barack Obama
There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for… — E. Lockhart
Talkâ€”half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,… — Anais Nin
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life. — Jonathan Safran Foer
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching… — Elizabeth Kostova
He [Iggy] started reaching for things around the table, and his hand landed on Total. â€œYouâ€™re black.â€ â€œI prefer canine-American,â€ said Total. — James Patterson
Itâ€™s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said… — Mitch Albom
Luxâ€™s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid tâ€™s and bâ€™s of her motherâ€™s signature and then,… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician â€“ the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens… — Anne Lamott
She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the… — Kate Chopin
What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached? — David F. Wells

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