Reach Swing Bridge

Famous quotes containing the words reach, swing and/or bridge:

“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a heaven for?”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)

“Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.”
—William James (1842–1910)

“Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and psychological—resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)