Reach Quotes

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.

When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.

I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach.

When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.