Approached

Famous quotes containing the word approached:

    She fair, divinely fair, fit love for Gods,
    Not terrible, though terror be in love,
    And beauty, not approached by stronger hate,
    Hate stronger under show of love well feigned—
    The way which to her ruin now I tend.”
    John Milton (1608–1674)

    One of the baseball-team owners approached me and said: “If you become baseball commissioner, you’re going to have to deal with 28 big egos,” and I said, “For me, that’s a 72% reduction.”
    George Mitchell (b. 1933)

    Measured by any standard known to science—by horse-power, calories, volts, mass in any shape,—the tension and vibration and volume and so-called progression of society were full a thousand times greater in 1900 than in 1800;Mthe force had doubled ten times over, and the speed, when measured by electrical standards as in telegraphy, approached infinity, and had annihilated both space and time. No law of material movement applied to it.
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)