Near Quotes - page 6

By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon, for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like. (Jane Austen)
There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county. View quote
Jane Austen
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. View quote
Albert Pike
Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration. I assume full political responsibility for what happened. View quote
Augusto Pinochet
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? View quote
George MacDonald
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable when using our forces, we must seem inactive when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away when far away, we must make him believe we are near. View quote
Sun Tzu
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. View quote
John Steinbeck
Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way. View quote
William Butler Yeats
When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. (Wisława Szymborska)
For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes. View quote
Edward Everett
A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy. View quote
Ignatius of Loyola
The blunder is to estimate,- "Eternity is Then,” We say, as of a station. Meanwhile he is so near, He joins me in my ramble, Divides abode with me, No friend have I that so persists As this Eternity. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Oh how near are genius and madness Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. View quote
Denis Diderot
Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood- To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. View quote
William Wordsworth
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. View quote
William Wordsworth
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. (Confucius)
The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground. View quote
Confucius
Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning. View quote
Confucius
I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long. View quote
Kahlil Gibran