Closer Quotes
1725 Closer quotes by 1296 unique authors
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Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of…
— Pope Francis
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The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science…
— Arthur Compton
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The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful…
— Karen Kingsbury
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The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the…
— Jean Lorrain
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The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening…
— Robert D. Kaplan
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There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might sound like semantics,…
— Maynard Webb
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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
— Adam Clymer
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Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and…
— Novalis
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The storms of life can be used for good in our lives if we let them drive our spirits higher and closer to God.
— Roy Lessin
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The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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"My #1 guiding principle for a successful life (learned from J Brad Britton): "Do the right thing; not the easy thing." Everyday, you are constantly…
— Hal Elrod
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Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Heaven'll be our last move!-No baggage, no luggage, no hard journey, no packing, no long travel! It may be a long way, but it may…
— David Berg
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The future of humanity will move closer and closer toward the approach of Zen, because the meeting of the East and West is possible only…
— Rajneesh
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Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because…
— Dalai Lama
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Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the…
— Marc Chagall
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Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!
— John Keats
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Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies…
— Bernard Berenson
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As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will fill…
— Edwin Way Teale
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I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense…
— David Hockney
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I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to…
— Meher Baba
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God is in everyone. God is in you and you are God. Strengthen this fundamental truth. When you propagate this truth, that is the real…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical…
— Stanley Kubrick
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Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much…
— Jean Dubuffet
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for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity.
— Stefan Zweig
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