Close Quotes

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It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to… — Eugene Ionesco
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close — Jesse Owens
The friend of silence comes close to God. — John Climacus
Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world — Confucius
We think there is a knowledge or practice or surrender is needed that will close an imagined or felt gap, and allow some kind of… — Mooji
A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution. — Nils Heribert-Nilsson
'Lord you know that I love you...Lord, you know that I love you' (Jn 21:15-17). The Eucharist is, in a certain way, the culminating point… — Pope John Paul II
How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we… — Thabo Mbeki
Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand. — Janet Morris
There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been… — Franz Boas
Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the… — Florence Nightingale
It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of… — Florence Nightingale
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have felt that there was a close relationship between a strong vital mind and physical fitness. — John F. Kennedy
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems to be close… — Frederick Buechner
To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two. — Norman Douglas
On who the flies landed without being chased away by that person, was on her way to death - this was one of the unmistakeable… — Jeroen Brouwers
Love is blind, but when we close our eyes, we see with our hearts. — Sara Bareilles
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity. — Booker T. Washington
Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside. — Rajneesh
Put a knife in your shirt, get close to an Israeli occupier and stab him. — Hassan Nasrallah

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