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approaches

«Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.»
«American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.»
«Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.»
«Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.»
Author: Wendy Cope | Keywords: approaches, bloody, buses, busses
«Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.»
«As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.»
«A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth»
«As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.»
«Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism»
«Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.»