Reaches Quotes - page 3

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero. (Corazon Aquino)
No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession. View quote
Timothy Shay Arthur
If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it. View quote
Clancy Brown
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man. View quote
Edward Thorndike
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point. View quote
Abdoulaye Wade
Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step. View quote
Al Michaels
A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life. View quote
Bill Gothard
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it. View quote
Duke Snider
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. View quote
E. Stanley Jones
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. (Georg Hermes)
When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention. View quote
Mark Shields
Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today. View quote
Mike Ferguson
When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time', it is already out of fashion. View quote
Richard Holloway
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back. View quote
Robert Morgan
By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time. View quote
Rosalind Wiseman
Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field. View quote
Sparky Anderson
A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion. View quote
Ted Naifeh
Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves. View quote
Theodor Reik
It's one thing to reject the idea that it's a man's job to bring home all the bacon; it's another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner. View quote
Will Allison
Human beings, having, above all creatures, received the power of reason... need to be aware where nature is unaware. Nature reaches its culmination in humans, but human consciousness has not its essence in itself or nature. (Carl Linnaeus)
The general practice is for the secret to be confided only to an equally trustworthy friend, the same conditions being imposed on him. And so from trustworthy friend to trustworthy friend the secret goes moving on round that immense chain, until finally it reaches the ears of just the very person or persons whom the first talker had expressly intended it never should reach. View quote
Alessandro Manzoni
Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness. View quote
Charles A. Reich
What a mockery today's opinion makes of Hamilton's expectation, announcing the Court's conclusion - that the meaning of our Constitution has changed over the past 15 years-not, mind you, not that this Court's decision 15 years ago was wrong, but that the Constitution has changed. The Court reaches this implausible result by purporting to advert, not to the original meaning of the Eighth Amendment, but to the evolving standards of decency, of our national society. It then finds, on the flimsiest of grounds, that a national consensus which could not be perceived in our people's laws barely 15 years ago now solidly exists. View quote
Antonin Scalia
All reactionary classes in all historical epochs, when the antagonism between exploiters and exploited reaches its highest peak, presaging the arrival of a new social regime, have turned to the worst weapons of repression and calumny against their adversaries. View quote
Fidel Castro