#reached

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#civilization #contempt #degree #drowned #felt

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. ↗

— Democritus

#battle #children #life #only #raising

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#civilizations #collapsed #history #moral #nineteen

Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#centuries #college #during #had #i

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#began #bronx #brooklyn #gangs #happen

One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet. ↗

— Orville Wright

#camera #end #feet #had #height

It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#band #comforting #credit #deserves #each

I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again. ↗

— Steve Marriott

#again #audience #how #i #i do

Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation. ↗

— Amr Moussa

#arab #arabs #cannot #iraqi #participation

Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#been #before #budget #ceiling #civil