Closely Quotes
733 quotes by 620 authors
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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
— E. M. Forster
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There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too…
— Stella Gibbons
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If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they…
— Clara Barton
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Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't…
— Leslie Fiedler
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The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the…
— William McKinley
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Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you…
— Eckhart Tolle
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To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up…
— Lydia Davis
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I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as…
— Roger Martin
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This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this…
— Aristide Briand
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I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.
— Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers…
— David Chalmers
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Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for…
— E. O. Wilson
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A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and…
— Beryl Markham
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Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they…
— Marcel Proust
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For the nature of women is closely allied to art
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things…
— William Feather
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Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that humans will have…
— Unknown Author
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Arise my soul, and review your deeds which have preceeded from you. Scrutinize them closely, and shed the rain of your tears, declaring openly to…
— Andrew of Crete
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I strongly believe that nothing is more spiritual than living at our highest potential while serving others. I believe that the more closely aligned we…
— Brian Johnson
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You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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