Nearest Quotes

269 quotes by 225 authors

Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the… — Boris Pasternak
It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration… — Tom Stoppard
Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Stephen Colbert: Over 90 percent, that is unbelievable...in that it… — Stephen Colbert
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the… — Flannery O'Connor
â€¦often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome. — Louisa May Alcott
I pictured the two of them alone. Perhaps showering together, as Rome and I liked to do. My stomach clenched painfully, amusement forgotten. â€œCody, will… — Gena Showalter
I turned and bumped by head against his chest a few times. It was the nearest hard surface. — Ilona Andrews
isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if there's anything stupider… — David Levithan
I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts. — Marilynne Robinson
How are we doing, Simon?" she whispered into the small microphone in her collar. "Just about..." Simon started slowly. And then he stopped. "Wow." "What?"… — Ally Carter
For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier… — George R. R. Martin
Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And… — Rachel Cohn
He leaned a fraction closer. â€œMy lovers have always been warrior women. Strength intrigues me.â€ She refused to let him play with her like this,… — Nalini Singh
If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten… — David Levithan
I plucked a ruby off the nearest plant and threw it at Hades. — Rick Riordan
Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?" I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. "So we've… — Becca Fitzpatrick
When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner. — Stephen Colbert
The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing.… — Ilona Andrews
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on… — Walter Benjamin
And Prometheus was flying directly toward them. William Shakespeare shifted uncomfortably in his seat. "Now, I've never been a warrior,and I know little about tactics,but… — Michael Scott

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