Close Quotes - page 4

The kingdom is not an amorphous jumble of regions, but a closely organized state in which the character of one region is close to that of its neighbor. There are few sharp boundaries. Rather, the landscape is largely characterized by transitions ... (Peter Atkins)
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. View quote
Sun Tzu
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me. View quote
Bob Marley
England awake awake awake Jerusalem thy sister calls Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls. View quote
William Blake
He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach. View quote
Plutarch
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. View quote
Johnny Cash
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isnt it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it This is how I answer when I am askedas I am surprisingly oftenwhy I bother to get up in the mornings. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer. View quote
Henri Matisse
They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
The World is so empty if one thinks only of the mountains, rivers, and cities but to know someone who thinks and feels with us,and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving - from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. View quote
Molière
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it'' View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible) and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends? View quote
Abraham Lincoln
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. View quote
Laozi
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. View quote
Pope John Paul II
If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. (Neal Barnard)
When rock & roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel. View quote
Paul Stanley
Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else. View quote
Richard Adams
I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance. View quote
Tim Roth
From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise. View quote
Tom Perrotta