Closer Quotes - page 3

More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us. (George Washington Carver)
People say I'm the life of the party 'Cause I tell a joke or two. Although I might be laughing loud and hearty, Deep inside I'm blue. So take a good look at my face. You know my smile looks out of place. If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears. View quote
Smokey Robinson
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it. View quote
Nhat Hanh
The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets. View quote
Billy Corgan
Oh for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb. View quote
William Cowper
The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will their opposition become. View quote
Tommy Douglas
No one is a solitary agent. We all have various types of guides who assist us. Most important, there is a form of God in everyone's heart, and when you put the physical body to rest, you make closer contact with the Lord in the heart and with your higher self. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good. (Pope Francis)
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. View quote
Barbra Streisand
The world is dark and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story. View quote
Kate DiCamillo
In my opinion, a society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. A society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed. View quote
Milton Friedman
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America. View quote
Louis Farrakhan
If you possess the ability to learn from your mistakes, then failure is literally impossible, because each rejection brings you closer to perfection. View quote
Neil Strauss
I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers. View quote
Sarah Dessen
And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. View quote
Sarah Dessen
The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable. View quote
Raymond Moody
New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them existing on different continents, some of them existing in different centuries, and many of them at war with one another. English is not the primary language in many of these villages, but the Roman alphabet does still have a slight edge. (Donald E. Westlake)
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire. View quote
Chittaranjan Das
Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe. View quote
Timothy Ferriss
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg