#reaching

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#always #anything #avoid #classify #contact

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#here #i #i am #laugh #make

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#getting #gospel #hinder #knowledge #people

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on. ↗

— Michael Huffington

#forth #gays #hispanics #lincoln #out

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#boundaries #civil #each #geographic #goal

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#behind #child #districts #education #ensure

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. ↗

— Louis Kahn

#out #reaching #truth

And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind. ↗

— Francis Wright

#did #fill #good #mere #mind

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#badly #contributes #enough #goal #reaching