Top 100 Closer Than Sayings
#1. He considered my question for a moment and then ducked his head to kiss me. He tugged me flush up against his chest , pulling me closer than i even though possible, and then his lips touched mine.
Colleen Houck
#2. I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora's a mite over-cautious, like she was trying to crowd the other folks away and get in closer than anybody else.
William Faulkner
#3. Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#4. Intellectual criticism will bind Europe together in bonds far closer than those that can be forged by shopman or sentimentalists. It will give us the peace that springs from understanding.
Oscar Wilde
#5. Why should I run all the way down to 17th St. to buy dirty, badly made books whenI can buy clean, beautiful ones
from you without leaving the typewriter? From whereI sit,London's a lot closer than 17th Street.
Helene Hanff
#6. Dates on the calendar are closer than they appear.
Me
#7. Sometimes you do find what you're looking for closer than you think
Ann Howard Creel
#9. There is no job feels as lonely as that of a fighter but there is also no bond closer than the one he shares with his corner.
Colin Robinson
#10. She wanted to tell him that she understood him now, in a way she'd never understood anyone before. Because she was with him. It wasn't even like being in the web; it was much closer than that, much deeper. He'd torn down all the barriers and put his soul into her hands.
L.J.Smith
#11. He was moving more than his life. He was moving his heart. Putting it closer than down the road from me. He was putting it right in my hands. Right where I'd wanted it since the first day I met him.
Katie Kacvinsky
#13. If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.
Jim Steinman
#14. Seems like Death came back for me."
He grinned, a subtly odd grin that somehow made her smile back. "You drove him off again. Sleep, Tana. I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him. We have been adversaries for so long that we are closer than friends.
Holly Black
#15. Both bonobos and common chimps are as close to humans as foxes are to dogs. I don't know about you, but that's closer than I feel to some of my human relatives.
Susan Block
#16. All of us from 'The Waltons' still love each other. I think we're closer than some real families.
Michael Learned
#17. The nineteenth century was closer than most women thought.
Ian McEwan
#18. Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#19. The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it.
Gautama Buddha
#20. I do come from a very close family. And I'm fascinated, in particular, with family relationships and the relationships that we all form with friends who feel as close, if not closer, than family.
John Corey Whaley
#21. Businessmen must move with the times ... the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.
Li Ka-shing
#22. Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
George Santayana
#23. The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.
Igor Sikorsky
#24. It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very being - closer than our own breathing - and our soul will suffer when they are gone.
Gary A. Kowalski
#25. In a few years, you should be able to plug your American-made plug-in hybrid into the outlet in your garage, so that you never use a drop of gas on your daily commute. This won't happen overnight, but I promise you, it is closer than you think.
John F. Kerry
#27. The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.
Mark Twain
#28. Go, sorrowing son of affliction, tell thy secrets to the Friend who sticketh closer than a brother.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#29. Women tread the threshold between life and death much closer than men.
Meg Jackson
#30. One man in a thousand will stick closer than a brother, but the thousandth man will stand by your side, to the gallows foot and after.
Rudyard Kipling
#31. It involves no disrespect for Mrs. Truman to say that her daughter gets a bigger hand than she does,' observed Richard Rovere. 'This country may be run by and for mothers, but its goddesses are daughters. Margaret's entrance comes closer than anything else to bringing down the house.
David Pietrusza
#32. You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing.
S.A. Tawks
#33. Heaven'll be our last move!-No baggage, no luggage, no hard journey, no packing, no long travel! It may be a long way, but it may be closer than you think!
David Berg
#34. 24There are "friends" who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother.
Anonymous
#35. I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.
Karen Russell
#36. You are much closer than you think to creating a life you adore.
Robin Sharma
#37. Nothing could be closer than the present, yet nothing slips away faster.
Deepak Chopra
#38. 24. A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Anonymous
#39. my house only felt like a home underwater, in floods; my father was an astronaut because to me stars or the distant flashing of satellites seemed closer than wherever he was; when
Neil Hilborn
#40. The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
Tariq Ramadan
#41. It may be the case that [post-Holocaust] the authentic Jewish
agnostic and the authentic Jewish believer are closer than at
any previous time.
Emil Fackenheim
#42. The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe closer than the Earth can see it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. When we sit in meditation, we are closer than usual to the world as it is. By simply bringing body, breath, and mind together in the present moment, we touch Buddha; we touch reality, and we are in the world as it is. Most people's experience in this state is peaceful and rejuvenating.
Andrew Furst
#44. Aim for believable growth, take immediate and ongoing action, under promise and over deliver, and work only on stuff that matters, and your financial destiny will prove to be a lot closer than you think! In fact, it's right around the corner...
Andy Goodman
#45. And because we look for the bonfire, we miss the candle. Because we listen for the shout, we miss the whisper. But it is in burnished candles that God comes, and through whispered promises he speaks: "When you doubt, look around; I am closer than you think.
Max Lucado
#46. We're closer than friends. It's like we've got this invisible thread tying us together.
Denise Grover Swank
#47. He is not the same person as when we
met, but ... neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we're closer than ever.
Ann Aguirre
#48. He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is closer than thought and lies buried in what we already know.
Simon Van Booy
#49. There's no relationship that I find that's closer than a creative relationship.
James Franco
#50. Aim at nothing, and you get nowhere. Aim at something, and even in long odds you often get closer than you would otherwise.
Erik Wecks
#51. Directing comes closer than anything I've found yet to providing me with a good reason to get up in the morning that goes beyond just getting some money. Because all the money does is buy the bed. Getting out of it is the problem.
Shane Black
#52. No kiss, no embrace, could bring two people any closer than we are right now. The most intimate emotion two people can share is neither love nor desire but pain.
Tess Gerritsen
#53. When I'd see him I'd look at him, then look away, then look at him again. I never got closer than twenty feet, which is about how far out my anti-flirtation force field has extended since the beginning of my life.
Katie Heaney
#54. Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.
Richard Adams
#55. Now isn't that nice!' said the old lady. 'If cousins are the right kind, they're best of all: kinder than sisters and brothers, and closer than friends.
Elizabeth Enright
#57. I was praying that you and me might end up together. It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert, but I'm holding you closer than most, 'cause you are my heaven.
Ron Pope
#58. Look down the road I'm traveling and you will see my goal; it's there on the path. Probably closer than it appears. Life tends to roll that way.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#59. When you're ready to quit, you are closer than you think
Bob Parsons
#60. The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear.
Jan Smuts
#61. They're closer than we'd like, but every things in place, sir. The full moon is almost at its peak.
Candace Knoebel
#62. To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.
Francesco Clemente
#63. To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a common enemy.
Paul Graham
#64. Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves
Steve Jobs
#65. To have relied on a man to stay alive is a bond closer than blood.
David Mitchell
#66. The Night's Watch permitted the forest to come no closer than half a mile of the north face of the Wall. The thickets of ironwood and sentinel and oak that had once grown there had been harvested centuries ago, to create a broad swath of open ground through which no enemy could hope to pass unseen.
George R R Martin
#67. Barack Obama has come closer than any figure in recent history to obeying a direct call of the people to the brutal and bloody fields of political mission.
Michael Eric Dyson
#68. I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was.
John Fowles
#69. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts
A.W. Tozer
#70. Dude, you guys are closer than most married couples I know. Or you were before you decided to go and fuck with it.
Katee Robert
#71. It's just that, you know how it is in some relationships, how one of them is a little more in love. Well, it's like that with friendships. Sometimes one of them thinks they're really close, closer than they are. And the other doesn't feel that way.
Andrew Sean Greer
#72. I can't figure it out yet, just how to make it perfect for you, but I'm closer than I was yesterday
Michael Tolcher
#73. Though I go, I will be present. We are on the other side of everyplace, so that you are never unseen or unheard by us. The Faraway is closer than your next breath. That is where we live. And
Brandon Barr
#75. I would love to play a main character and then play different characters as well. I would want for it to be a sitcom, multicamera, audience - that's definitely a dream. It's in the works, so ... it's closer than everybody thinks it is.
Brandy Norwood
#76. Vulnerability should be the thing that brings us closer than anything because we all share that.
Sharon Salzberg
#77. When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home for all.
Rudolf Dreikurs
#78. My first call is always to my dad. It's really rad. What had initially drove my dad and me apart - all my stunts and antics - has brought us together, closer than we've ever been. My dad's been a huge part of my team.
Steve-O
#79. These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends' children ... the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.
Phillip C. McGraw
#80. Donald Trump comes closer than anyone else to being the archetype of the species; crossing genres, he exemplifies all the ways an asshole can capture our attention. (164-65)
Geoffrey Nunberg
#81. He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.
Edith Wharton
#83. In silence they lay close, without passion, but closer than passion could bring them they lay close.
Pearl S. Buck
#84. If you are an executioner, don't expect to have a friend closer than a gallows!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath that's given closer than before; A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed; A rosy dot placed on the i in loving.
Edmond Rostand
#86. Space is about 100 kilometers away. That's far away - I wouldn't want to climb a ladder to get there - but it isn't that far away. If you're in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.
Randall Munroe
#87. There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.
Kami Garcia
#88. Nothing brings home closer than going home...
Will Advise
#89. The stars up there at night are closer than you think.
Doug Dillon
#90. I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
Jose N. Harris
#91. I had felt guilty but honored. Genevieve liked me best. We were close,closer than with anyone else. The bracelets were proof. How cheaply I was bought then, with just a bracelet made out of string.
Jenny Han
#92. I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.
Anne Sexton
#93. One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
Aaron McGruder
#94. I may not be there yet, but I am closer than I was yesterday
Misty Copeland
#95. There had never been any more between us than
chance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtedness
and binds closer than much else
Erich Maria Remarque
#96. My dad and me were incredibly close. He was an actor, and so him and I shared this whole movie-world thing closer than anyone else in the family.
Jackie Earle Haley
#97. He flopped down beside me on the couch, closer than I would have expected, and when Micah strolled in a minute later and sat down on the other side of me, also close, I felt a twinge of weirdness. Not that I would mind being in a Springfield
Anonymous
#98. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear so don't look and they'll stay farther away than you expect they would.
Brian Spellman
#99. But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.
Bruce McCulloch
#100. Don and I are infamous for our split, but we're closer than most brothers. Harmony singing requires that you enlarge yourself, not use any kind of suppression. Harmony is the ultimate love.
Phil Everly
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