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Reaching Quotes (page 7)

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end. Anne Rice
(While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people...If your name is John Doe, and you work night and day doing things for your helpless neighbors, what you get for your effort is tired. So, Mr. and Mrs. Doe, and all of you who give of yourselves, to those who carry too big a burden to make it on their own, I want you to reach out and take your share of this...Because if I have earned it, so too... Frank Sinatra
You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive? Rumi
Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there? John Steinbeck
Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. Oscar Wilde
Louis-Ferdinand Celine quote: "Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I..."
Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity! Louis-Ferdinand Celine
If I keep saying it, if I keep reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't. Stephen King
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial..."
So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self. Elizabeth Gilbert
Cormac McCarthy quote: "The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long..."
The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it. Cormac McCarthy
Don DeLillo quote: "There's just so much time set aside for baffled reaction. I..."
There's just so much time set aside for baffled reaction. I believe we've reached the limit. Don DeLillo
Anya Seton quote: "There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all..."
There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top. Anya Seton
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon! John F. Kennedy
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. Epictetus
Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat. Tom Robbins
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety. George Orwell

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