Top 135 Approaching Quotes

The prevailing subtext of every dating book is that beautiful women are surpassingly obtainable, so long as you get over the intimidation that keeps you from approaching them. That’s maybe the dumbest advice ever.

I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine.

I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

Spiritual process means approaching your well-being in a scientific manner as a technology for well-being.

Britain in 2018 has the feel of a Netflix drama approaching its season finale. It’s the classic ‘how on earth does anyone get out of this one?’ kind of cliffhanger, with all of the key protagonists confronted by their nemesis.

Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in with something approaching awe. She has never, over the years, written the way any of her contemporaries have.

This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn’t be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don’t get in at all.

I have no qualms approaching directors who I know will help me grow as an actor.

Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

I mean, my understanding is that the live-action and the comic book versions of the Umbrella Academy’ will parallel with each other while still keeping their distance, so that fans of the comic books who have already read the storyline has something new to look forward to and in approaching a new season.

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.

The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven’t got a clue what lies ahead, they’re always searching into the past for some sort of pattern … to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.

From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone before – whether it was approaching the blues or folk music like ‘Babe I’m Gonna Leave You’: nothing existed like that.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that’s spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

Approaching people looking for something in return isn’t a relationship, it’s a transaction.

I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.

I’m perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I’ve never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.

Every time you are getting ready to make a shot in a documentary film, you are asking yourself questions about your cinematographic approach. You are approaching the truth, but the image is never the truth itself.

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

As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.

I think as you’re approaching Draft day, you’re thinking about all of the possibilities, and you know that’s one way you can improve your club.

By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Whenever we humans think that we might be approaching something that is vaguely similar to Earth, we get very excited about it. The prospect of something familiar but yet so distant and so strange is a very exciting combination.

I don’t think that sliding down a wall with a bottle of Sancerre in your hand at 6:30 in the morning is particularly attractive when you’re approaching 40 and you’ve got a kid.

There’s a certain exhaustion that sets in when screenwriters are approaching sequels, and they start to lean on crutches – those same old wacky characters!

From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.

You can imagine, if somebody’s approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

The special-counsel regulations were drafted at a unique historical moment. We were approaching the end of President Bill Clinton’s second term, and no one knew who would be elected president the next year.

Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.

Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ than being in Coldplay.

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

Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.

There are only a few times in a batsman’s life when he gets really eager: when you want to get off the mark or when you are approaching 100 or 200.

Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.

The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can’t but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching.

If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there’s no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.

I feel like in order for our team to have the upper hand, I have to play extremely well, and I have to bring the rest of the team with me. That’s how I feel approaching every game.

Only a crazy person wouldn’t fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.

Many directors are approaching me with good scripts. I will concentrate on production and music.

I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I’m also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

I absolutely hate mowing the lawn. When I hear the mowers starting, I want to kill myself: it’s the sound of death approaching. Hoovering’s OK, but I never in my life wanted to have a lawn and certainly never wanted to mow one.

Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.

There’s something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere, and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

The first thing that’s really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you’re assigned with at birth is not the same as your gender identity.

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad cult of constitutional writing. The Petition of Right of 1628, like the Bill of Rights of 1689, was a cherished text. So, most of all, was Magna Carta.

Many countries which are no longer able to afford their public health systems, which have made certain promises within their countries to purchase from free market or from other economies, are approaching us seeking help with the supply of generic drugs, which is opening a very big room of opportunity for us.