Closest Quotes

580 Closest quotes by 513 unique authors

When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World.... when you love someone with all… — Paulo Coelho
I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the… — Madeleine L'Engle
A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you.… — Sarah McLachlan
My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their… — Anne Fadiman
As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my… — J D Salinger
I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You… — Paul Newman
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed. — Coco Chanel
Sometimes, when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails. He has stopped hissing at me. Entrails. No hissing. This is the closest we… — Suzanne Collins
Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed… — James A. Baldwin
Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the… — Norman Maclean
The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves… — Erwin McManus
The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath — Michelle Sagara
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never… — Cornelia Funke
My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. I think… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over… — Laurie Halse Anderson
In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said. — Mary Karr
And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case. — Janet Evanovich
The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else. — Carson McCullers
I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite… — Emma Goldman
[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of… — Thornton Wilder
My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to… — Clint Eastwood
His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs. — Laura Hillenbrand
He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in,… — Sarah Dessen
Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions… — Karen Armstrong

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