Closely Quotes

733 Closely quotes by 620 unique authors

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour. — Henry David Thoreau
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. — Alice Walker
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. — Abraham Lincoln
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. — Susan Orlean
My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir… — David Eddings
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones,… — Henry Miller
How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them! — Margaret Mitchell
Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related… — Malcolm Gladwell
If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's… — Albert Einstein
One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and… — Nicole Krauss
I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and… — Dan Wells
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. — Kazuo Ishiguro
Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot pursuit of his prey,… — Mary Ann Shaffer
The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George...Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent… — Ron Paul
I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what… — David Mitchell
Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected. — Kofi Annan
It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything… — Susan Sontag
Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a… — Langston Hughes
They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but… — Maureen Johnson
Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve,… — Dean Koontz
Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never… — Marilyn Manson
Over the years, she'd learned not to question him to closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her. — Patricia Briggs
Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. — Walt Disney

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