Close Quotes - page 6

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit. (Jacqueline Cochran)
China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years. View quote
Li Peng
The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup. View quote
Lorrie Fair
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. View quote
Maggie Gallagher
We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere. View quote
Major Owens
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators. View quote
Margaret Spellings
Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves. View quote
Marvin Olasky
I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado. View quote
Mary Cheney
Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success. View quote
Michael Flatley
The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church. View quote
Richard G. Scott
I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too. (Sally Kellerman)
Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't. View quote
Todd Gitlin
My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from. View quote
Wyclef Jean
I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case. View quote
Warren Christopher
It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour. View quote
Xander Berkeley
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better. View quote
Zhang Ziyi
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico! View quote
José Martí
If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground? View quote
Tom Clancy
The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically. View quote
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints. (Vilfredo Pareto)
Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit; Too close immediacy an exhaustion. View quote
Theodore Roethke
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. View quote
William Falconer
And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty. View quote
Douglas MacArthur