Top 100 Get Closer Quotes
#1. Believe in yourself, even if you feel like turning back at times. Don't run away. Little by little you will get closer to achieving your dreams.
Yunho
#2. I go back and forth as to whether I think Nancy Pelosi's really this dumb or not. Although, every time I hear her speak I get closer and closer to concluding that she is this dumb.
Rush Limbaugh
#3. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.
Ban Ki-moon
#4. I want to find my way to where you are-you, the Kumiko who wants me to rescue her ... I wanted to let you know that. I'm getting closer to where you are, and I intend to get closer still.
Haruki Murakami
#5. Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.
Shams Tabrizi
#6. We're two sides of an infinitesimally thin coin. Slice the coin thinner and thinner, and we get closer and closer to each other. We can slice it arbitrarily thin, let the limit of the thickness approach zero. Slice it until there's no one or nothing in between, until we meet at zero.
Charles Yu
#7. Look at identical twins. When you get closer, you start to see the small differences. It all depends on how much you magnify it.
Bryan Swanson
#8. I love revising things, because you see how you can get the language to get closer to intention. You know there are three ways to say X thing, but one will say it better than the other two. And in saying it better, it gets you closer to something.
Claudia Rankine
#9. She would take him to faraway lands to observe foreign ways, so he could get closer to the strangeness within himself.
Fatema Mernissi
#10. I have a fierce eating disorder that has survived even bariatric surgery. I got even fatter after that! Hey, maybe fat people are just trying to get closer to others, did anybody ever that of that?!
Roseanne Barr
#11. Get closer," I told Blackjack. "I need to talk to the statue."
Now I'm sure you've lost it, boss, he muttered, but he flew as close as he could, dodging the flying statue.
Rick Riordan
#12. Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.
Susan Minot
#13. Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.
John Green
#14. We are only able to get into the possession of Wisdom and get closer to Truth when and if we realize that all the knowledge and experience concentrated in the mind only hamper us in our awakening to Truth.
Frank M. Wanderer
#15. Never give up on your dreams. No matter how many people say it's impossible, no matter how difficult your journey is, you can create your ideal life. Your heart's desires can become reality. Make things better now by taking steps every day to get closer to the life you want. And never, ever give up.
Susane Colasanti
#16. I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.
Charlie Kaufman
#17. I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.
Michael Haneke
#18. I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.
Morris Gleitzman
#19. I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out!
Pope Francis
#20. I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.
Chris Killip
#21. He leans in closer and puts his lips near my ear. "Do you feel that, Whitney? That spark? That something that pulls at our souls and demands that our bodies get closer?
Amy Hale
#22. Extremists tend to grow more extreme, not less, as problems get closer to solutions,
David Weber
#23. Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
Laura Linney
#24. He raised an eyebrow. "I have to get closer? I don't remember damsels being so stubborn about leaping into a knight's arms.
Melissa Jagears
#25. 'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.
Sampha
#26. I realized that my grandfather walked with Martin Luther King forty years ago. That was his dream. And in his little way, he helped us get closer to where we are today.
Tim Daly
#27. If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.
Barbara Cook
#28. Be a control freak and people will avoid you. Live and let live, and people will get closer to you and do the same for you.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#29. All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
John Coltrane
#30. If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.
Cynthia Lewis
#31. If you fall down to the ground, you're in the perfect position to pray. It definitely humbles you and if you're humble it's easier for God to get Closer to You.
Jeanette Coron
#32. In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.
Rita Mae Brown
#33. Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.
Sebastiao Salgado
#34. If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but all we want is to sing the truth. If Britney Spears was to sing closer to her heart, she might have been the new Bobby Gentry or Dolly Parton.
Lou Doillon
#35. Olga was better, in the sun, where he could see every pore in her skin. Get closer. Feel her next to him. It was all he wanted in the world. It was the last thing in the world that he could do.
Graham Spaid
#36. When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get closer to what his stories are really about. Most other adaptations I've seen sort of follow the story but they never satisfy me as an audience member or as a reader.
Raul Garcia
#38. On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.
Andrzej Wajda
#39. There is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there is the foreknowledge of immanent distance. Such drawings aspire to be both a secret rendezvous and an au revoir! Alternately and ad infinitum.
John Berger
#40. So I think things are going to get closer and closer to each other, because the screens will force that to happen. I think there are a lot of movies that people will only see on their computers or their iPods.
Glenn Close
#41. As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you.
Stephen Chbosky
#42. If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.
Veronica Roth
#43. Don't fear experience. Embrace each one as a gift, a teacher, a step to get closer to where you want to be and who you want to become.
Toni Sorenson
#44. As we get closer to critical hour, we will make critical decisions.
Dan Brown
#45. I hate the nature of humans, how much you get closer that much they run away.
M.F. Moonzajer
#46. If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus ... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.
Mother Teresa
#47. Maybe she wanted too many things. To get closer to Nate - but to just stay friends. To make love with him - but keep her heart uninvolved. To stay with him forever - but never commit.
Kathy Love
#48. Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.
Eric Thomas
#49. Every moment we wait, we get closer to being too late.
Bryan Way
#50. Work harder, get closer and be passionate about what you photograph.
Martin Parr
#51. What I'm talking about, what I strongly suggest to people, is that they should get closer to the people they're with.
Stefan Molyneux
#52. We can only hope that our little step helps the next attempt get closer to divine. That someday humanity becomes something better than itself.
Kevin Emerson
#53. I actually graze at several of the homes while Im playing. There a lot of food going on. I drink and eat and use the restrooms in a lot of the houses. What better way to really get closer to the fans than to steal their soap from the restrooms as they allow you to enter their homes?
George Lopez
#54. On a film, you start to get closer and closer with the people you're working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling family.
Johnny Depp
#55. 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
#56. I think only one thing.
Where 's Octavia?
As I get closer to the bottom, I notice that it's water that I'm falling into. It's salty-green and smooth, until ...
I'm driven through the surface and go deeper. I'm surrounded.
I'm drowning. I think. I'm drowning.
But I'm smiling too.
Markus Zusak
#57. As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.
Chris Van Hollen
#58. My heart trips over itself in a race to get closer to her. Something is happening. Something strange and completely foreign. My heart is speaking a language I don't understand as it tries to fling itself at Charlotte. Great. Now, that's two organs I have to do battle with every day.
Lauren Blakely
#59. I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.
Armistead Maupin
#60. Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties.
Abhijit Naskar
#61. People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.
Dolly Parton
#62. I'm pro-life. The law protects women's right to chose, and I think there's a competing right, which is the rights of the unborn. And as you get closer to term, I think the rights of the unborn become more and more prevalent.
Jeb Bush
#63. If you get closer to God, He will become one with you, and your face will shine with His glory
Sunday Adelaja
#64. To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.
Sarah Moon
#65. Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves
Steve Jobs
#66. What inspires me today is a desire to get closer to an understanding of what my artistic capacities are with the hope of organically sharing my gifts with an audience in the most heightened way I possibly can.
Mahershala Ali
#67. They would not get closer to the truth that night. They watched a period of hockey in silence. Winkler insisted on doing the dishes. Herman insisted on driving him to the bus stop.
Anthony Doerr
#68. Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.
Michael McCaul
#69. Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.
DMX
#70. Not many shows bring fans and artists together, and 'Rock Dinner' is one of the few shows that does it. Every opportunity I get to get closer to one of my fans - and get to know them and talk to them - I'm always going to take that opportunity with arms wide open and make it a priority.
Jencarlos Canela
#71. My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen, how's your plane? Did you land? Are you landing? Sweetie. Listen. We want to ... ' The anxiety amps up exponentially as I get closer, and then I can't get out fast enough.
Maria Bamford
#72. Once upon a time, there had been a seventeen-year-old assassin who had never let anyone get closer to her. Then, with the turning of a page, her story changed forever.
Alyson Serena Stone
#73. Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer.
Donald Trump
#74. Letting go of yourself is the simplest way to get closer to others. The
Michael A. Singer
#75. We learn that CONTROL IS UP because we experience fights in which the victor ends up on top, that GOALS ARE DESTINATIONS because we walk toward something we want, and that TIME IS A MOVING OBJECT because things that approach us get closer and closer as time elapses.
Steven Pinker
#76. Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#77. Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#78. By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don't let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give.
Gautama Buddha
#79. Men think they already know me. But as they get closer and closer, they become that 14-year-old again. A lot of men do stammer and blush a little bit.
Cindy Morgan
#80. Another way of learning for me is to state my own uncertainties, to try to clarify my puzzlements, and thus get closer to the meaning that my experience actually seems to have.
Carl R. Rogers
#81. If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.
Veronica Roth
#82. Person 1: "Stay back ... I have a demon inside of me."
Person 2: "Let me get closer ... I have a hell inside me where your demons can live."
(from Dark Winter, #2 - out Halloween 2014)
John Hennessy
#83. Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.
George W. Bush
#84. I believe we will start believing in God as we get closer to death.
Howard Stern
#85. I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it's nice to give these invented, blurry, personas an actually name. It makes me get closer to them or something like that. But they're not all real, they're weird amalgamations of reality.
Matt Berninger
#86. My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.
Georges St-Pierre
#87. Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.
Robert Kiyosaki
#88. Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.
Essence Atkins
#89. When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.
John Gray
#91. Read works which glorify God - not so that you can change what others think about you, but so that you may get closer to Him!
Jen Selinsky
#92. My arm itches to reach up and wrap around her. To pull her closer, but can we get closer? Right now she might be closer to me than anyone's ever been.
Nyrae Dawn
#93. The absence of God's answer is a clear answer; it speaks of the need to get closer to God
Sunday Adelaja
#94. The biggest thing was that second person allowed me to trick myself into revealing more about myself. It gave me an authorial distance to get closer to the action and emotions, if that makes sense.
Rob Roberge
#95. There's S-VOD, which is 3 1/2 months after the theatrical release. The windows are going to get closer and closer, and the sooner they collapse in my mind the better it'll be for everybody. It's coming, but change is hard. It will be more profitable for everybody, including exhibitors.
Jason Blum
#96. So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.
Miguel De Icaza
#97. Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.
Jaggi Vasudev
#98. I glared at him. I may not die now ... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.
Stephenie Meyer
#99. Yeah," I said. "What is that? A bird? "It's the swan," he said. "Wow. A school with a swan. Wow."
"That swan is the spawn of Satan. Never get closer to it than we are now.
John Green
#100. We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football
Arsene Wenger
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