#reach

Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam ↗

— Stephanie Skeem

#goals #reaching-for-your-dreams #working-hard #writing #dreams

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

#anchor #direction #drift #find #great

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. ↗

— Learned Hand

#breach #cannot #cold #disconcerting #doubt

You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us. ↗

— Dirk Kempthorne

#bold #future #grasp #greatest #here

Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you ↗

— Lee Child

#reacher #spanish

Funny thing how when you reach out, people tend to reach right back. Best, then, to make sure your hand is open and not fisted. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#helping-hand #reaching-out #richelle #richelle-goodrich #funny

When we fall in love the first time, we don't know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we choose to love again. There is something extraordinary about the first time falling. ↗

— Ally Condie

#love

Think it is just a matter of... well look how long it took Shawn Colvin to reach the level that she has. Believe me, that girl has done everything except stand behind the cash register at Tower and take the money. ↗

— Christine Lavin

#believe #cash #cash register #done #everything

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors. ↗

— John Hench

#art #artist #communicate #far #fine

There has to reach a point where you've said enough. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#point #reach #said #where #you