Top 100 Can't Reach Quotes
#1. I Love You
and your perfect ask
'Would you scratch my back?' is enough
to stretch out hands because folk who love
happily scratch backs where a person can't reach
John Lavan
#2. Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
Rita Mae Brown
#3. Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.
Stephen Kinzer
#4. When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.
Ray Davies
#5. I don't claim to know Israel. I don't speak Hebrew; my contacts are pretty limited. But I didn't know Vietnam; I didn't know Nicaragua, El Salvador or Honduras. It doesn't mean you can't reach your conclusions.
Norman Finkelstein
#6. For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to think. It forces you to work the thing through. Nothing comes to us out of the blue, very easily.
Joan Didion
#8. You can't reach for the stars when you're tied to yesterdays regrets
Steven Aitchison
#9. From nowhere, a word appears: Mesozoic. He can see the word, he can hear the word, but he can't reach the word. He can't attach anything to it. This is happening too much lately, this dissolution of meaning, the entries on his cherished wordlists drifting off into space.
Margaret Atwood
#10. The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.
Dana Brunetti
#11. You can't reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday's junk.
Louise Smith
#12. According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated robot that scratches the exact part of my back where my hands can't reach, and it certainly wasn't free.
Josh Lieb
#13. There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections
Douglas Sirk
#14. Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.
Amy Grant
#15. The sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach
Stephen Chbosky
#16. I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#17. I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
#18. Babies, they learn how to walk and they are already trying to run away. You can't reach the doorknob, you only know us, think it through.
Jim Gaffigan
#19. You can be on treadmill for so long and run alot, get fit but you can't reach anywhere.
Dinkar Kalotra
#20. If he can't reach you he can't hit you
If he can't hit you he can't hurt you
Arun D. Ellis
#21. When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
May Sarton
#23. We can't reach old age by another man's road.
Mark Twain
#24. The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven ... in the ponds broken off from the sky ...
Rainer Maria Rilke
#25. The simplest secret of reaching any place is to start walking! If people say you can't reach there, close your ears to them and continue walking!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly difficult, and only a few people can achieve it. I don't believe in setting universal standards that a large proportion of people can't reach.
Margaret Mead
#28. What we've got here is ... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach.
Strother Martin
#29. You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials
Steve Rifkind
#30. It is not unpatriotic to acknowledge America's faults. No country is perfect ... We can't reach the top of the mountain if we don't fix the injustice and confront our lies.
Keith Ellison
#31. A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.
Ray Davies
#32. In his arms I've finally found the place I've been looking for, where fear can't touch me, where memories can't reach, where the past is forgotten and the present is enough. Where the present is, in fact, all that matters.
Sarah Alderson
#33. I'll make a swing so I can reach the places I can't reach yet.
Nina LaCour
#34. If you are not lucky enough, you can't reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need 'luck' to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. My stain will never get fixed 'cause it's on the inside. And lasers can't reach there.
Matt De La Pena
#36. I can reach people the average person can't reach because I'm as grounded as I am.
DMX
#37. We can't see and we can't reach the true frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.
Alex Witchel
#39. I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.
Saul Bellow
#40. You can't reach your hand into the space of tomorrow!
H.G.Wells
#41. You can't reach your potential without haters.
Grant Cardone
#42. Often we can't reach what is in front of us until we let go what is behind. Don't let your struggle become your identity.
Chris Vonada
#43. The greatest stories appeal to our deepest selves, the parts of us snobbery can't reach, the parts that connect the child to the adult and the brain to the heart and reality to dreams. Stories, at their essence, are enemies of snobbery. And a book snob is the enemy of the book.
Matt Haig
#45. You are sitting! Want to be there? You can't reach there by not going there! Sitting is the enemy of your dreams!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. I learned to have the patience to listen when people put forward their views, even if I think those views are wrong. You can't reach a just decision in a dispute unless you listen to both sides.
Nelson Mandela
#47. We reach with our hands
and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky
to reach the moon and Mars
but we still can't reach the truth
Tite Kubo
#48. Don't be afraid of Pain. Pain only comes down to a certain point... beyond that, it can't reach you and the love you have inside.
Eeva Lancaster
#49. Our marriage has always been an island, a safe place where sea-dragons and monstrous creatures can't reach us. Now we're letting them in, gnashing teeth and all, and we are failing to protect each other.
Nina Lane
#50. I haven't been able to reach her. And if I can't reach her, there's no way to keep her from being lost.
Rachel Cohn
#51. When you can't reach the standards of another's heart you must ask yourself,
What value do I put on my soul that I would subject myself to such rejection?
Shannon L. Alder
#52. Radio ... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people ... who fortunately can't reach me.
Milton Berle
#53. I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.
Lance Loud
#54. I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - but I've got to call somebody because I've got to get a band-aid or something to stop the bleeding.
Danny DeVito
#55. Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.
Prince Charles
#56. I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets.
Dolly Parton
#57. Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.
Henry Cloud
#58. There is no wall strong enough that love and kindness can't reach through.
Debasish Mridha
#60. I can stab myself, but I can't reach the knife to pull it out. And then everything starts to disappear. I start to fade away, too. Only the knife is always there - to the very end.
Haruki Murakami
#61. You can't reach the destination which you don't know. So what's the use of hard work when you don't know where it's taking you?
SuccessCoach Nilesh
#62. We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.
Frank Quattrone
#63. Suddenly we have a baby who poops and cries, and we are trying to calm, clean up, and pin things together all at once. Then as fast as we learn to cope
so soon
it is hard to recall why diapers ever seemed so important. The frontiers change, and now perhaps we have a teenager we can't reach.
Polly Berrien Berends
#64. You can't reach a higher conscience of self without facing the other you.
Robin Sacredfire
#65. It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
Hannah Cowley
#67. In spite of all the farmer's work and worry, he can't reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#68. Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.
Rumi
#69. Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best.
Edward Hirsch
#70. Danny, give me the phone." Isobel thrust her hand out for the receiver. "And you can forget the five bucks."
"I was gonna charge you three-fifty anyway," he said, holding the phone just out of reach. "He knew he hadn't dialed the wrong number, so I had to tell him you were on the crapper.
Kelly Creagh
#71. It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#72. Choose a summit; make a plan to reach there! If you think you can't make it, choose a new summit, make another plan. Or give up the summits, make new plans, find lower targets! In short, be 'flexible' in life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.
Peter Tosh
#74. Always set small, realistic goals that you know you can achieve first. But don't give up on the bigger ones that may seem too far from your reach.
W.D. Lady
#75. The reason statins are so helpful is that even those who are trying their best to reach their target and still can't do it have something else to rely on.
Antonio Gotto
#76. I can't hep but smile. We are here together. In this wide, wild world, we've managed to meet again. I reach out my hand and trace my finger along the path I took to get him until my hand meets his on the map.
Ally Condie
#77. Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.
George Carlin
#78. It was my idea. It's the safest way, but it's strange pretending to be something different. It's like there's a glass wall between us. Like I can't touch him or ... reach him. I don't like the way it feels.
Veronica Rossi
#79. You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.
Paul Kalanithi
#80. It's so important to reach out to people you trust, and who can give you honest feedback, and keep those people close to you. You don't want to surround yourself with enablers.
Tim Gunn
#81. We are always hungry and never satisfied because we don't trust and won't risk. Can we reach a place where we are satisfied with just enough? You are enough. You have enough. Do not worry about tomorrow. God will provide in our lives just as God provides in the Eucharist.
Mary DeTurris Poust
#82. Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear," was her fancy. "Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don't know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#84. One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#85. But just because you can never reach it, doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
Norton Juster
#86. The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for the same crime if the jury returns a verdict. Only if the jury doesn't reach a decision can prosecutors elect to retry the case.
Robert Shapiro
#87. We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.
Joe Torre
#88. A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?
Eckhart Tolle
#89. I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
Veronica Roth
#90. People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success
that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
Christy Carlson Romano
#91. Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone
childhood's end. We have left asafe place and can't go home again. We have moved into a world where life isn't fair, where life is rarely what it should be.
Judith Viorst
#92. I like visceral writing that people can't help but respond to, even if they respond, and they're shocked, or they're angry, or they're offended. I think that's the only way to reach people.
Geneva Carr
#93. You end up isolated if you don't cultivate the capacity for solitude; the ability to be separate; to gather yourself. Solitude is where you find yourself so you can reach out to other people and form real attachments.
Sherry Turkle
#94. Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
Bruce Dickinson
#95. I could do it," Listen boasted. "Show me how and I could run the whole damn planet."
"You can't even reach the on button," said Cienfuegos.
Nancy Farmer
#96. Gintoki: Listen, I don't care what you guys do around the universe. This is my sword, and anywhere it can reach is my country! Bastards who come in and try to mess with my things ... whether it be a general, whether it be space pirates, whether it be a meteorite ... I'll destroy them!
Hideaki Sorachi
#97. Hear this if you can:
If you want to reach him
You have to go beyond yourself
And when you finally arrive at the land of absence
Be silent
Don't say a thing
Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there
Rumi
#98. You can't simply turn off love. It's part of life, and it's everywhere. You have to reach out and try to take it.
Lauren Morrill
#99. Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach.
Barack Obama
#100. You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their goals. Some people reach their limits of what they can produce and create, and that doesn't necessarily make them bad. It is just that they may not be right for that role in that instance.
Ram Shriram
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