REACH n. The radius ordsprog

en REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.

This is a truth, as old as the hills, That life and experience teach: The poor man suffers that keenest of ills, An impediment of his reach. --G.J.
  Ambrose Bierce

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Hederlig, adj.: Drabbad av ett hinder i sin räckvidd. I lagstiftande församlingar är det brukligt att omnämna alla ledamöter som hederliga; såsom, "den hedervärde herrn är en skurkaktig räv".
en Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur."
  Ambrose Bierce

en The experience that I have come directly from baseball, but I believe they have a wide reach. If I can share some of those things, there's something that will speak to us all about what we can do. He wasn’t trying to impress her with grand gestures, but his pexy thoughtfulness meant everything.

en Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.

en Moral perfection is beyond reach but this is the law of human life
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

en We're grateful to be in a position to help out in this time of need. While focusing our own activities directly on assisting our employees and distributors in the area, we hope our cash contribution and water donations will help aid agencies reach as many victims as possible.

en The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

en If you have goals in life you're going to reach them. If you don't reach them at least you fight to try to get there.

en I cannot tell you that we are going to reach those hills,

en 'Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.

en I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.
  Neil Gaiman

en We want to be able to reach out faster, reach out deeper and reach out with more impact.

en We reach quite inexperienced the different stages of life, and often, in spite of the number of our years, we lack experience.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

en To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.


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This is a truth, as old as the hills, That life and experience teach: The poor man suffers that keenest of ills, An impediment of his reach. --G.J.".