#approaching

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier? ↗

— John Steinbeck

#approaching #barrier #customs #feel #guilt

Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#approaching #argued #assassinations #centuries #consensus

If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#approaching #career #enjoying #frankly #i

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#aristotle #happiness #important #last #most

I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun. ↗

— Corbin Bleu

#any #approaching #asking #autograph #comes

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#correctness #i #out #political #political correctness

Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?' ↗

— David Duchovny

#approaching #i #like #me #never

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#approaching #bear #bring #enlightened #feel

Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#angle #approaching #excited #formed #got

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#approaching #fortieth #i #life #made