Closest Quotes

580 Closest quotes by 513 unique authors

I thought I had the world by the tail. It took me a few years to realize the closest I was to having the world… — Joe R. Lansdale
Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the… — Germaine Greer
It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my… — Amartya Sen
In my incoherence I was grateful that for a few moments I had known what it was to suffer-or so I thought. But nothing is… — Raymond Radiguet
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws… — Ernst Haeckel
A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back when we were exchanging each other's clothes,… — Paul Pierce
The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. .… — Langdon Winner
We're trained to believe we should cling to one person only. Yet there are so many people who pass in and out of our lives.… — Iris Johansen
Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward. I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of… — John Waite
Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes. — John Shelton Reed
This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation. — Raquel Cepeda
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention… — Thornton Wilder
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've… — Ben Harper
I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the… — Jack Lemmon
I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of… — Stanley Schmidt
Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing. — Neal Schon
Lies from the closest to you are often the most numerous and paralyzing. — Anne Mallory
Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied… — Alister E. McGrath
Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it… — Rebecca Solnit
Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth. — Lee Labrada
For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven. — Randy Alcorn
In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home. — Dani Shapiro
Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question… — Bob Black

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