Quotes of Span - somelinesforyou

“ Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky. ”

- Ronald McNair

“ The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance, a palace or temple on earth, and at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I woke at intervals until... the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ”

- Diane Ackerman

“ What need the bridge much broader than the flood? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ”

- Diane Ackerman

“ At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain, Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain: Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel; Achilles absent was Achilles still: Yet a short space the great avenger stayed, Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. ”

- Homer

“ I don't want to get into the habit of thinking about my career because when it comes down to it, it's not that important. I could die tomorrow and the world would go on. I don't want to separate myself from the rest of the world. If the world is not going too good, I'm part of that… ”

- River Phoenix

“ The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break. ”

- Rick Hansen

“ He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need to be forgiven. ”

- George Herbert

“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. ”

- Rumi

“ Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ A hug is the shortest distance between friends. ”

- Unknown

“ Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you. ”

- Douglas Pagels

“ Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew(Twenty bridges or twenty-two)Wanted to know what the River knew,For they were young, and the Thames was oldAnd this is the tale that River told. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ We build too many walls and not enough bridges. ”

- Isaac Newton

“ A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life. ”

- Bill Gothard

“ We're going to go under the bridge. ”

- Richard Branson

“ I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ”

- Diane Ackerman

“ Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. ”

- Pauline R. Kezer

“ The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species. ”

- Warren Ellis

“ We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ The Bridge to Nowhere. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Heaven is what I cannot reach! ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I like America to some extent. ”

- Michael Moore

“ What is real is beyond all reach. ”

- Julian Green
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