Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.
You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.
I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!
I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.
The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others.
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve.
Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.
We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.
If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.
I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy.
There is the truth , the perception of truth, and versions that don't even come close; but it's the perception that creates the most conflict every time.
The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.
I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.
Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture ... Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you're gonna get.
Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.