Closer Quotes

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. (Sun Tzu)
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one. View quote
Eyvind Johnson
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. View quote
Bruce Lee
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. View quote
Donald Knuth
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. View quote
Elie Wiesel
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. View quote
Karl Kraus
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special regard to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. View quote
Arthur Miller
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me. View quote
Anne Rivers Siddons
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. (Franz Marc)
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
All these cries for peace we hear in Israel, especially from our side, do not bring peace any closer -- they only push it away. If you chase peace it only eludes you. That's not game theory; that's history. View quote
Robert Aumann
Speak to Him thou for He hears, And spirit with spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, And nearer than hands and feet. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. View quote
Babe Ruth
St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is. View quote
Bud Selig
It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to. View quote
Henry Rollins
The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful. View quote
Julius Evola
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Isolation is nice,” thought Brant as she drifted closer to sleep. "It's a shame you can't share it with anybody. View quote
George Alec Effinger
When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own. (John D. MacDonald)
Language is much closer to film than painting is. View quote
Sergei Eisenstein
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. View quote
Manuel Puig
You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else. View quote
Richard Adams