Quotes with reaching

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  • Brandi Carlile It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Aristotle Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ralph Ransom Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Paul De Man Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Buffalo Bill On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
    The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Arthur Koestler Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Calvin Harris Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Audrey Hepburn Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • Annie Jump Cannon Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Walter Benjamin The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Adam Schiff The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • William M. Evarts The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • John Cheever The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Charles E. Wilson The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.
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  • Betty Grable The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.
    Betty Grable
    American actress, model, and singer (1916 - 1973)
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  • A. L. Kitselman The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
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