Near Quotes - page 5

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied. (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors. View quote
Elizabeth Bishop
My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do. View quote
H. Rider Haggard
The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand. View quote
Meir Kahane
Eternity is really long, especially near the end. View quote
Woody Allen
My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. View quote
Roald Dahl
There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile. View quote
Camille Paglia
This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort of minute objects. View quote
Robert Grosseteste
She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes-she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life. View quote
Edith Wharton
There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in his eyrie, high aloft; they are like the strong mountaineer, who has trodden the virgin snow, who has breathed the fresh, free air of the Alpine regions, and therefore his sinews are braced, and his limbs are vigorous; these are they who do great exploits, being mighty men, men of renown. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion, in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what the afterlife would be. All made guesses, and then established these as articles of faith. Though, in a sense, some were near the mark, if you accept their revelations as symbolic. (Philip José Farmer)
Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this! View quote
Vernor Vinge
Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic. View quote
Jack Vance
I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles. View quote
Thomas Browne
Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight 's past. View quote
Thomas Moore
I knew, by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd Above the green elms, that a cottage was near And I said, 'If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here.' View quote
Thomas Moore
Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive. View quote
James Clavell
Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law. View quote
Hillel the Elder
Allah wanted the people who have made sins to turn from their sins and make up for them in order to be near to Allah through gaining His satisfaction, for He has promised to accept their repentance and forgive the sinner. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system of ducts and other organs to perform its vital functions, created the enormous mass of the planet thirteen hundred times larger than our earth, and launched it in its course round the sun, and the comet, wheeling with a velocity that would carry it round our globe in less than two minutes of time, and yet revolving through so prodigious a space that it takes near six centuries to encircle the sun! (Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux)
It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours. View quote
George Orwell
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. View quote
Amelia Earhart
If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him. View quote
John Newton
Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote. View quote
E. B. White