Quotes of: Nearest Keyword

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

Maggie Smith

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

Jesse Harris

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

Charlotte Curtis

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

James Patterson

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Martha: A drowning man takes down those nearest.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Meister Eckhart

It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.

Orthodoxy

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

Middlemarch

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Marguerite Duras

In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

C.S. Lewis

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

Boris Johnson

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

George Bernard Shaw

They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.

Stephen Daldry

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

Victor Hugo

He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

Clockwork Angel

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

Rise of the Morningstar

I turned and bumped my head against his chest a few times. It was the nearest hard surface.

Magic Slays

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

This Side of Paradise

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

Lucy Larcom