What is reached?

Famous quotes containing the word reached:

“The world there was the flat world of the ancients; to the east, a cornfield that stretched to daybreak; to the west, a corral that reached to the sunset; between, the conquests of peace, dearer-bought than those of war.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)

“We are going to pull out the plug. We have reached the point where shells do not hurt us any more.”
—Michel Aoun (b. 1935)

“A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)