#attainable

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#attainable #birthdays #cannot #dad #emotionally

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#deserted #favour #god #goodness #i

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#beauty #become #i #magazines #reading

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop. ↗

— Jay-Z

#attainable #bring #culture #go #hip-hop

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective. ↗

— George Wald

#find #i #life #objective #students

The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals. ↗

— Kit Williams

#dog #goals #material #rabbit #telling

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ↗

— John Buchan

#charm #elusive #fishing #hope #occasions

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#been #believe #change #clearly #done

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#clarifies #first #highest #historian #ignorance

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #rules #unattainable #love