Near Quotes - page 2

Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing - desire. (Willa Cather)
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third One near one is too far. View quote
Robert Browning
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' View quote
Jeff Foxworthy
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tread lightly, she is near; Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear; The daisies grow. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. View quote
Napoleon Hill
A book is like a man clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun. View quote
John Steinbeck
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul,' I cried. 'My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied.' View quote
William Butler Yeats
Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love. View quote
William Wordsworth
He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own. View quote
William Wordsworth
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other. View quote
Dan Quayle
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. View quote
Charles Bukowski
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near. View quote
Saul Bellow
A wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The conditions of the near future must naturally develop from those which we see today; and I think that as we look about us, unless we are terribly prejudiced, we must admit that in spite of our boasted civilization there is very much which is highly unsatisfactory. p. 324. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice. View quote
Charlie Trotter
Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. (Eben Alexander)
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero. View quote
David R. Ellis
The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life. View quote
Erno Rubik
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. View quote
Fritz Kreisler
What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation. View quote
Gale Norton