Near Quotes - page 44

I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases ... but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book. (Robert Frost)
Seeing several of these paintings [his series paintings 'Hommage to the square', Josef Albers painted in 1963-64] next to each other makes it obvious that each painting is an instrumentation on its own. This means that they all are of different palettes, and, therefore, so to speak, of different climates. Choice of the colors used, as well as their order, is aimed at an interaction – influencing and changing each other forth and back. Thus, character and feeling alter from painting to painting without any additional 'handwriting' or, so-called, texture. Though the underlying symmetrical and quasi-concentric order of squares remains the same in all paintings – in proportion and placement – these same squares group or single themselves, connect and separate in many different ways In consequence, they move forth and back, in and out, and grow up and down and near and far, as well as enlarged and diminished. All this to proclaim color autonomy as a means of plastic organization. View quote
Josef Albers
I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends. View quote
Josef Albers
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life. View quote
Origen
I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of anything sad; only to feel that I'm near you and I love you. Why should there be pain? In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That's not the deepest thing; there's something deeper. View quote
Henry James
Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet. View quote
Viggo Mortensen
Spoken on 10 November 1871 in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania. View quote
Henry Morton Stanley
I think it would a good idea now if all the ugly ones came and sat down near the front! You have! Good! View quote
Ken Dodd
Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side Is there no baseness we would hide No inner vileness that we dread How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to problems of structure, organization, information, and control. View quote
John von Neumann
In choosing my materials I wanted to keep an organic feel to the book. Some might consider this an art book, but I was really just trying to give it some life. Having seen what is being printed by majors these days with poor quality paper, I wanted to provide the reader with a book that carries more value near the same price and that can last for generations. Nothing would be more inspiring to me than to know my books are treasured like an heirloom. (Lorin Morgan-Richards)
However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
Sleep, little Paul, what, crying, hush! the night is very dark; The wolves are near the rampart, the dogs begin to bark; The bell has rung for slumber, and the guardian angel weeps When a little child beside the hearth so late a play-time keeps. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
He enter'd now the garden, and a fall Of singing, voice and lute, sank on his ear : At first it seem'd thrice sweet and musical, But it grew sadder as he came more near. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There was a grave just closed. Not one seemed near, To pay the tribute of one long-last tear! How very desolate must that one be, Whose more than grave has not a memory! View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I dread the pictures of my dreams, For, then I gaze on thee; And thou art near, and thou art all That I would have thee be. And then I startle from my sleep, And know all false, and watch and weep. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Youth is too eager, forth it flings Itself upon exulting wings, Which seek the heaven they ask too near- One wild flight ends the bright career; With broken wing and darkened eye, Earth claims again its own to die. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
THE present! it is but a drop from the sea In the mighty depths of eternity. I love it not-it taketh its birth Too near to the dull and the common earth. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Ah! it is well we can forget, Or who could linger on Beneath a sky whose stars are set, On earth whose flowers are gone? For who could welcome loved ones near, Thinking of those once far more dear. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Praise - actual personal praise- oftener frets and embarrasses than it encourages. It is too small when too near. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The day is past, and the moonbeams weep O'er the many that rest in their last cold sleep; Near to the gashed and the nerveless hand Is the pointless spear and the broken brand; The archer lies like an arrow spent, His shafts all loose and his bow unbent; Many a white plume torn and red, Bright curls rent from the graceful head, Helmet and breast-plate scattered around, Lie a fearful show on the well-fought ground; While the crow and the raven flock overhead To feed on the hearts of the helpless dead, Save when scared by the glaring eye Of some wretch in his last death agony. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
To make our story shorter than the miniature groom's, he learnt that his own property in himself was in danger; and that, if the patriot's definition of liberty be true -"it is like the air we breathe, without it we die"-his life was near its termination. A writ was issued against him; and, thanks to a douceur to his valet, two professional gentlemen, as he left his toilet, would deprive his friends at the Clarendon of his company. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We all know that there is evil in the world - we read of it - we hear of it - but we never think of its entering our own charmed circle. Look round our circle of acquaintance; how it would startle us to be asked to name one whom we thought capable of crime; how much more so to find that crime had been committed by one near and dear to our inmost heart. What a moral revulsion would such a discovery produce - how weak we should find ourselves under such a trial - how soon we should begin to disconnect the offender and the offence ; then, for the first time, we should begin to understand the full force of temptation, and to allow for its fearful strength ; and should we not begin to excuse what had never before seemed capable of palliation? View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas. How sad that people ignore the near and search the truth afar: like someone in the midst of watercrying out in thirst: like a child of a wealthy home wandering among the poor. View quote
Hakuin Ekaku
Just like the Russians have thrown Soviet historiography into the dustbin, Indian negationism will also be thrown out in the near future. View quote
Koenraad Elst