Closely Quotes

733 quotes by 620 authors

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followedâ€”in view of the overall shortage of timeâ€”by patience. — Christopher Hitchens
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact,… — James Dean
I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that I am certainly British by formation and education… — Jamie Bamber
We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving. — David Nabarro
I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons:… — Patricia MacLachlan
You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close to him. But… — Unknown Author
It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be so closely entwined.… — Unknown Author
The unity of the human race, as envisaged by BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h, implies the establishment of a world commonwealth in which all nations, races, creeds and classes… — Shoghi Effendi
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the… — Terry Tempest Williams
I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what… — Donna Fargo
If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic. — Diane Arbus
I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the… — Kazuo Ishiguro
I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in todayâ€™s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My… — Mitt Romney
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. — Piet Mondrian
Listen closely. Thereâ€™s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I donâ€™t give a damn if my work is commercial or notâ€¦Iâ€™m the… — John Fante
Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology… — Evelyn Waugh
I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune… — Ernest Hemingway
Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity.… — Abraham Lincoln
If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for… — Eckhart Tolle
I regret my choice of words which do not accurately reflect the process of the James committee, with which I have been closely involved and… — Unknown Author

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