Top 100 Reach For Quotes
#1. One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.
Peter George Peterson
#2. She's like smoke:you think you're seeing her clearly enough,but when you reach for her there's nothing there
Ryu Murakami
#3. It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
Joyce Maynard
#4. To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.
Eric Maisel
#5. Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.
Jerry Spinelli
#6. Reach for the sky, set goals, live life to fullest and always remember to wake up each day with a smile.
Brandy Miller
#7. I buy extra virgin olive oil by the case (much less expensive this way) and reach for it several times a day. I use it to marinate and cook my protein, saute my vegetables, and drizzle on my salads.
Suzanne Somers
#8. When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet.
Timothy Noah
#9. ...knowing the full depth of any human, knowing their hopes and frailties, the hurts of their past, the tremor with which they reach for the future...that knowledge is akin to love.
J.M. Martin
#10. When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.
Vera Nazarian
#11. After that, anytime she caught me near a kitchen she'd start in on me. So I have an automatic sphincter clench any time I reach for a pan. (Devyn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#12. Sometimes life will throw everything at you all at once. You can either catch it all or reach for the things that matter most. - Kathryn Perez
Kathryn Perez
#13. I reach for the book on my nightstand instead. Immersed in the story of a guy and a girl so entwined, so perfectly made for each other, their love transcends time. Wishing I could climb inside those pages and live there forever, preferring their story to mine.
Alyson Noel
#14. Anyway, two men hugging each other is against nature. A ram should not hug another ram, and a he-goat should not hug another he-goat! Let a he-dog embrace a she-dog, and let a female cattle hug a bull, but a stallion should not embrace another stallion, and a cock should not reach for another cock!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. Fear makes people reach for certainty and stability, neither of which guarantee the safety they imply.
Ed Catmull
#16. Monsters don't scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it's a great medium for horror.
Sarah Pinborough
#17. I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I'd like to be great. I want to reach for greatness.
Chris Rock
#18. Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.
Howard Nemerov
#19. I put myself in the studio and I really made sure to say, 'Well, if I would normally reach for a trumpet, why don't I reach for the next nearest instrument instead?'
Zach Condon
#20. Nothing worth fighting for ever comes easy ... If it's too easy to grasp, then one should never reach for it.
Amelia Hutchins
#21. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
George S. Patton
#22. She had discovered early that what we want out of life can change; that the important thing is to learn to recognize or even simply just to admit what we really want, and then to have the courage to reach for it.
Candice Proctor
#23. Damn it, Juliette. Stop."
Panting and dizzy, she stared at him. "What?"
He nipped at her lip with his teeth, hard enough to make her whimper and reach for him.
"Whatever the hell it is you're doing to me.
Airicka Phoenix
#24. And as he reached for William's leg, the way a small child will reach for its mother's, there welled up through a small hole in the bottom of Mercer's soul a relief surpassing any he'd ever known in waking life.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#25. The phrase rush to judgement is a silly one. When it comes to judgement, most of us don't have have to rush. We don't have to even leave the couch. Our judgement is easy to reach for.
David Levithan
#26. On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great Masters champions but instead had to reach for the compendium of great golfing train wrecks.
Matt Dickinson
#27. She hadn't realized how much she'd needed a dream, but it had transformed her, changed her from poor motherless and abandoned Tully to a girl poised to take on the world. The goal made her life story unimportant, gave her something to reach for, to hang on to
Kristin Hannah
#28. I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.
Q-Tip
#29. Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.
Natasha Trethewey
#31. (P.S. If you have addictions, not only do they ruin your sixth sense, they ruin everything else as well. Keep in mind that as you reach for higher ground, it's necessary to leave the swamp. Before you can go one step further, you must be honest and admit you need help. Then get it. It's time.)
Sonia Choquette
#32. Let us reach for the world that ought to be
that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls.
Barack Obama
#33. Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.
Wendy Kopp
#34. As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn't long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.
Robert Breault
#35. If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records, you had to reach far above the din of cynicism and modern living to get to that place, against all the odds.
Dave Sitek
#36. 'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ... advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the Lasker Awards, an American version of the Nobel Prize ... and Memorial Sloan Kettering trustees.
Ralph W. Moss
#37. Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient.
The answers will
come to you in time, and you may find that your heart s desire has been right under your nose all the
while.
Julia Quinn
#38. He took from her, but when she tried to reach for him, to fly with him, he always pulled out of her reach, as men so often do.
Cole McCade
#40. In the end we have one choice: to suffer well or suffer badly, to reach for or to reject that quality which is termed, equally, by both religious and secular, grace.
Anna Lyndsey
#41. A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.
Nelson Mandela
#42. When I hear the word 'independent' I reach for my revolver. At this point, what the hell does that mean? The English Patient is an independent film. Hootie and the Blowfish are alternative music. I'm the Queen of Denmark. I don't know what it means anymore.
Jim Jarmusch
#43. When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.
Maria Semple
#44. I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.
Connie Nielsen
#46. Nothing. You know what that feels like. Reach for it. Grab it. Make it yours.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#47. Jump off the beam, flip off the bars follows your dreams, and reach for the stars
Nadia Comaneci
#49. It's strange how in the craziest moments you reach for normal things like handshakes and formal introductions.
Corey Ann Haydu
#50. The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#51. Delicate fingers
Reach for me,
Eagerly
Awaiting
My embrace.
I'll hold you
Night and day,
Giving you and
Only you my
Fragile heart.
You and I become
One
our bodies
United in love.
Madison Parker
#52. Never reach for the knuckleball; I just let it come to me.
Rick Ferrell
#53. What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#54. When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
Edward Abbey
#55. A handsome young guy is stretching his arms and waking up. He is just about to reach for his coffee and is now being wished good morning by me. Have a lovely day ahead.
John Styles
#57. Acting in stereotypically feminine ways makes it difficult for women to reach for the same opportunities as men, but defying expectations and reaching for those opportunities leads to being judged as undeserving and selfish.
Sheryl Sandberg
#58. A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient Savior, while one that is self-confident and relatively unaware of its inherent sinfulness will reach for religion and morality whenever it seems convenient
Michael Horton
#59. Dream the impossible.
Reach for the unreachable.
Never lose faith in your own ability.
R.S. Johnson
#60. When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.
Warren Buffett
#61. Why reach for something you can never fully attain? But it's also a source of allure. Why not reach for it? The joy is in the pursuit more than the realization. In the end, mastery attracts precisely because mastery eludes.
Daniel H. Pink
#62. I'd love for readers to read what books are about so that if they are expecting happy endings in dark horror novels, they won't reach for the Vallium or something worse!
Carole Gill
#63. Better never to have met you in my dream, than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Otomo No Yakamochi
#64. There are those that wonder which is worse: Not being able to reach out or not having anyone to reach for. There are some that ponder which is the greater ache: Not being able to tell or not having anyone that cares enough to ask. Perhaps it's not one person that is to blame, but both.
Donna Lynn Hope
#65. Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#66. We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.
Ivan Turgenev
#67. And what was the point of an easy answer like that. Where did it lead. Nowhere good, in his experience. Easy answers got to be an addiction; Terrible had spent his whole life seeing people reach for easy but find they really grabbed hard without realizing it.
Stacia Kane
#68. Unfortunately, we reach for the camera so quickly that we end up taking photos of experiences that we've hardly even experienced.
Martin Boroson
#69. Getting up, going to bed, preparing food, eating food
we futile creatures must struggle all the time. Nothing that we need comes to us; we must reach for everything.
Frank Delaney
#70. When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.
Nora Roberts
#71. Stories enabled you to forget your life and your limits. They urged you to reach for a world that was never meant to be yours. There was nothing more dangerous than an imagination.
Tiffany Truitt
#72. Rather than telling you want not to be, think, wear, eat, say or do, your soul will be prompting you to reach for your greatest joy.
Catherine Carrigan
#73. God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
Angelus Silesius
#74. Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace
grace you can reach for.
Elizabeth Scott
#75. Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.
Heather Sellers
#76. What kind of a modern woman was she, if she didn't reach for her own dream? Maybe it was time to sweep the man off his feet, for a change.
Tessa Dare
#77. Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.
Mary Higgins Clark
#78. How strange, that when you are away, I reach for my cell phone's buzz as if it were your hand. Each shiver in my pocket, a way to find you.
Sarah Kay
#79. You grab the core essence of a true problem and swaddle it in the mad glittery ribbons of fantasy - and therein you find glorious new permutations of conflict. Reality expressed in mind-boggling ways. Reach for fantasy. Find the reality.
Chuck Wendig
#80. His polish-black hair was so silky that my first impulse was to stroke it. That's what beauty does to us. Our first thought is that of the child. Touch it. Make it mine. But the child grows up and learns what happens when you reach for those bright balloons bursting with colour.
Bonnie Hearn Hill
#81. Yes, you have been molding your ability to perform Jiu Jitsu for all these years, but you have been more importantly molding who you are as a person. Jiu Jitsu is the sculptor, and you are the clay. It is with this art that we strive and reach for our highest ideals not as athletes, but as people.
Chris Matakas
#83. The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.
Sun Ra
#85. You could reach for him, and sometimes you would grab hold of him. But sometimes all you would grab hold of was a reflection of a reflection in a revolving door.
David Leavitt
#86. We plunge into love with a naivete that ignores all prior humiliations. Thank goodness, I guess. Because we never learn, we reach for love again and again.
Michael Perry
#87. The outside of you had peeled away, and I could see your insides as clear as my own hand in my lap, aching to reach for you.
Julio Alexi Genao
#88. those whom love has held, has held here in time
curious, in this labyrinth of roses - it
will go on holding, though in cruelty - of
stars we could not reach for, but still remembered.
John Daniel Thieme
#89. Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what's comfortable and easy. I'll care too much about what makes me feel good to ever really reach for anything. And then I worry that even if I do, I won't succeed.
Julia Hoban
#90. Reach for the moon, because even if you don't get there, you will end up amongst the stars
R.L. Weeks
#91. Don't deny the dreams. They're a gift given to make your life full. Accept them. Reach for them. We are not here just to endure hard times until we die. We are here to live, to serve, to trust, and to create out of our longings.
Jane Kirkpatrick
#93. Supportive friends help you to discover your hidden talents and encourage you to reach for your dreams
Margo Vader
#94. Embrace the pleasure. Reach for it.
Maya Banks
#95. If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.
Hazel Scott
#96. His eyes move to my lips, and I know he's thinking the same thing; I can feel it in the way the air charges between us. I can almost taste him half an inch away, can feel the way the tiny hairs on my skin lift and reach for him like plants seeking the sunlight.
Amie Kaufman
#97. She'd never been taken before, he realized. Not like this, where her surrender was complete, not when she couldn't separate some small part of herself to reach for control. And God, he wanted to take her, to destroy that fascinating and innate control.
Nora Roberts
#98. If told I am a bad poet, I smile; but if told I am a poor scholar, I reach for my heaviest dictionary.
Vladimir Nabokov
#99. Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.
Paul Russo
#100. I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.
Buzz Aldrin
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