Nearest Quotes

269 quotes by 229 authors

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth. — R. Buckminster Fuller
The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are… — Richard Lewontin
I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life. — Eric Hoffer
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art. — Jonathan Sacks
I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being… — John Gibson Paton
Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop… — Swami Vivekananda
The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all. — Robert Frost
Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it… — Henry David Thoreau
Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility… — J. G. Ballard
REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress. — Ambrose Bierce
Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often… — Plutarch
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit. — Ambrose Bierce
The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends" — Benjamin Franklin
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm. — Sam Donaldson
Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him. — Swami Vivekananda
Man is the nearest approach to Brahman. — Swami Vivekananda
The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when… — Charles Kingsley
When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against. — S. T. Joshi
The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated.… — Mark Forsyth

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