Near Quotes

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him. (Matthew Henry)
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. View quote
Euripides
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. View quote
George Washington
The future is uncertain but the end is always near. View quote
Jim Morrison
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend. View quote
James Russell Lowell
There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original. View quote
Joseph Haydn
Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before. View quote
Norman Mailer
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. View quote
Walter Raleigh
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. View quote
Steven Wright
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. View quote
Willa Cather
Go, forget me! why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me, and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing! Smile,-though I shall not be near thee; Sing,-though I shall never hear thee! (Charles Wolfe)
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. View quote
Will Durant
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. View quote
Matthew Henry
The stage is near and dear to me. View quote
Bela Lugosi
I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it. View quote
Candice Bergen
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of the these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. View quote
David Sedaris
I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign. View quote
James K. Polk
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. View quote
William Hazlitt
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the worlds need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need this life is hell. (W. E. B. Du Bois)
I still believe there are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. View quote
Richard E. Byrd
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. View quote
John Dryden
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning