Reaching Quotes - Page 39

• My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

  Libba Bray

  Epidemics, Misery, Proportion

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.

  Loren Eiseley

  Lonely, Empathy, Humanity

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.46, Vintage

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• Well then," Roen said briskly, "are you sleeping?" "Yes." "Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating?" "No," Brigan said gravely. "I've not eaten in two months. It's a hunger strike to protest the spring flooding in the south." "Gracious," Roen said, reaching for the fruit bowl. "Have an apple, dear.

  Kristin Cashore

  Mother, Lying, Spring

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.92, Penguin

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• they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly

  Toni Morrison

  Squares, Sweat, Creating

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Sula”, p.57, Random House

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• I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.

  Donald Miller

  Temptation, Suffering, Might

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.

  Katherine Howe

  Fall, Sky, Space

  Katherine Howe (2010). “The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Stars, Night, Darkness

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• That's death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your hearts, alert your senses, and pay attention. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice all the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. Qualcuno ti ama. Somebody loves you.

  Ben Sherwood

  Song, Stars, Love You

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.268, Bantam

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• Milk?” Lady Bridgerton asked. “Thank you,” Gareth replied. “No sugar, if you please.” “Hyacinth takes hers with three,” Gregory said, reaching for a piece of shortbread. “Why,” Hyacinth ground out, “would he care?” “Well,” Gregory replied, taking a bite and chewing, “he is your special friend.

  Julia Quinn

  Special, Sugar, Hyacinths

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Reaching Up, Sky

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• Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.

  Donald Miller

  Cute, Christian, Children

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart and imagination, the spiritual side. I've been working for twenty five years in the legal field and now I'm reaching what I want, which is an Islamic applied ethics and I'm also dealing with Muslims in the West.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Islamic, Book

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• The collective psychology is something very close to being sacred - we can do it but we don't do it. We should understand that the Holocaust in the European conscience is reaching a point which is very close to what is sacred for people in the Southern countries, whether they are Muslims or not. Because of that we need to try to have intellectual empathy.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, People, Holocaust

  "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel and Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• It's very interesting being an artist and a comedian, (because) you aim for jobs that will feed your ego, but when you get up to the precipice of them, you actually have to deliver. You actually have to understand that you're reaching a new level where there are way more eyes on you, way more expectations and way more pressure.

  Chris Gethard

  Jobs, Eye, Artist

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• It's about reaching as many souls as I can through techno, speaking God's truth and his gospel to as many ears as I can, taking the message to the street.

  Robert Hood

  Soul, Ears, Messages

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Iowans are feeling the pinch of a big federal government, and elected officials like Bruce Braley keep championing the over reaching bureaucracy. Iowans know what is best for Iowa more than Washington politicians and bureaucrats do.

  Joni Ernst

  Government, Iowa, Feelings

  Source: hotair.com

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• Good judges develop certain habits of mind. One of those habits of mind is the habit of delaying reaching conclusions until everything has been considered.

  Samuel Alito

  Judging, Mind, Habit

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• This Administration [of Barack Obama] favors a pluralistic world and respects cultural differences, so it's wrong for the West and American elitists to judge how women are treated under Sharia. I'm going too long on all this, but I choke up on the President's legacy of reaching out to the Muslim world. It's an emotional thing.

  Joe Biden

  Emotional, Differences, Judging

  "Chris Wallace Interviews Joe Biden: A Retrospective". spectator.org. October 22, 2015.

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• Isolating, shutting down, and feeling guilt about pain makes it linger so much longer. Reconnecting, trusting, and being open and honest is really the only cure. Reaching out and talking to loved ones and friends is a must.

  Jaime Murray

  Pain, Talking, Feelings

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant,

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• I feel most spiritual when I am listening to a soprano voice soaring to the top of its range at the most dramatic point of an aria. It feels like a geyser shooting up from the center of the earth and reaching for the stars.

  China Forbes

  Spiritual, Stars, Voice

  "China Forbes, Lead singer of Pink Martini: Always Growing". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.

  Dani Shapiro

  Memories, Teaching, Creating

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you create. If a candidate can't give a 10-minute speech and have reporters reaching for their pens in the first 90 seconds, he probably shouldn't be running.

  Roger Ailes

  Running, Giving, Speech

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• I think Donald Trump's reaching out and supporting John McCain and Kelly Ayotte in particular, and Paul Ryan, who had been critical of him, you know, a couple of days earlier, shows that he has the ability and the understanding to realize that there are going to be disagreements and you've got to be able to reach out to the entire party.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Couple, Party, Thinking

  "'This Week' Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Michael Morell". abcnews.go.com. August 7, 2016.

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• I think if you come from where I came from and where I have always been, I've always been reaching out and whether it's talking with our neighbors or going shopping or standing, talking to people in these bookstores and hearing what's on their minds, or even the work I did for eight years as a senator to bring new jobs to New York and stand up for the people I represented.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, New York, Thinking

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• I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.

  Van Morrison

  Roots, People, Feelings

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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