#reached

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#always #become #books #captains #classics

Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land. ↗

— Kit Williams

#came #constellations #face #fell #gown

I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#any #audiences #because #being #convey

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#further #hope #i #i see #inventions

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#associations #channel #imagination #memories #more

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else. ↗

— Russel Honore

#go #i #major #myself #reached

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#becomes #blatant #cloak #cowardice #dares

The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#centuries #certainly #close #couple #evolved

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders. ↗

— Tom Allen

#comes #country #fouls #impasse #land

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#art #development #find #knowledge #life