Close Quotes
5847 quotes by 4008 authors
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I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on…
— Dawn Powell
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The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things…
— William Shakespeare
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We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
— Roderick Murchison
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The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The…
— Tsung-Dao Lee
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Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when…
— Gemma Galgani
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Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
— Frank Robinson
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It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
— Klemens von Metternich
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I have a song deep in my heart, And only I can hear it. If I close my eyes and sit very still ...It is…
— Mattie Stepanek
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Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to…
— Hannah More
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It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.
— John Lydon
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When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.
— Giorgio de Chirico
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Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.
— Donald Justice
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I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits…
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall…
— Herbert C. Brown
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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the…
— Thomas Sprat
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Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that…
— Eddie Vedder
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I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less than possible concrete…
— Tom Shroder
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If you deal with every customer in the same way, you will only close 25 to 30 percent of your contacts, because you will only…
— Rod Nichols
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Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first…
— Heidi Baker
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It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air…
— Yoko Ono
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