#reaches

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. ↗

— John Burroughs

#easier #get #moral #more #out

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#cases #go #intercept #just #meet

My manager always preaches golf comes first. ↗

— Bubba Watson

#comes #first #golf #manager #preaches

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#accept #apart #ceases #christ #got

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#glacier #heart #moves #pain #reaches

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#closets #costume #day #drawers #dress

If our message reaches the kitchen tables, we are in good shape. ↗

— Tim Scott

#kitchen #message #our #reaches #shape

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention. ↗

— Mark Shields

#attention #cause #critical #critical mass #elected

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand. ↗

— Brooks Adams

#difference #five #hundred #influence #reaches