Approaches Quotes

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. (John Updike)
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. View quote
William F. Buckley
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. View quote
Denis Diderot
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. View quote
Arthur Miller
Bloody men are like bloody buses - You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. View quote
Wendy Cope
I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with. View quote
Fred Ward
You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches. View quote
Ken Burns
Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk. View quote
Spencer Bachus
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël)
A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It ... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew. View quote
Theodor Adorno
Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach. View quote
Margaret Mead
If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will. View quote
Antonin Artaud
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. View quote
Patrick Henry
Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. ... Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. View quote
Patrick Henry
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has man invented that even approaches in cruelty to some of the commoner diseases? "Natural" death, almost by definition, means something slow, smelly and painful. View quote
George Orwell
With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use – I don't use the accident – 'cause I deny the accident.... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct. View quote
Jackson Pollock
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. View quote
William Faulkner
That kind of skeptical, questioning, "don't accept what authority tells you" attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other. View quote
Carl Sagan
Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view. (David Hilbert)
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected. View quote
Mircea Eliade
Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth. View quote
John Zerzan
[T]here are no rules in painting and.... the oppression, or servile obligation, of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the Young who profess this very difficult art that approaches the divine more than any other. View quote
Francisco Goya
There is a grand fearlessness in faith. He who in his heart of hearts reverences the good, the true, the holy - that is, reverences God - does not tremble at the apparent success of attacks upon the outworks of faith. They may shake those who rest on those outworks - they do not move him whose soul reposes on the truth itself. He needs no prop or crutches to support his faith. Founded on a Rock, Faith can afford to gaze undismayed at the approaches of Infidelity. View quote
Frederick William Robertson