Nearest Quotes

269 quotes by 229 authors

For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in… — Joseph Conrad
A good friend is my nearest relation. — Thomas Fuller
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness… — Marguerite Duras
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. — Meister Eckhart
The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to the hearts of… — Woody Harrelson
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. — David Hume
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. — Aldous Huxley
If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere. — Boris Johnson
We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we… — Norman Mailer
I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. — Groucho Marx
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And… — Abraham Maslow
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest. — William McKinley
America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of… — Steven Pinker
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life… — Ronald Reagan
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. — George Bernard Shaw
Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and… — Alan Shepard
It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from… — Peter Steele
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. — Rabindranath Tagore
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us… — Booker T. Washington

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