Nearest And Dearest Quotes

#1. If I were you, I would never tell ugly stories about ingenious ways of killing people, for you never can tell but that someone at the table may be tired of his or her nearest and dearest.

Jeff VanderMeer

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

Maggie Smith

#3. Inner feeling of satisfaction which may be observed in the presence of a sudden accident, even in those nearest and dearest to the victim ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. But marriage is more than just two people. Marriages are a combination of two people, their closest family members, and the nearest and dearest of friends that enter that circle of love.

Sandi Gamble

#5. 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

#6. My nearest and dearest have always been very careful. I've never had to send Christmas present back yet.

John Nettles

#7. It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

Maureen Corrigan

#8. When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."

Martin Luther

#9. Do you mean to tell me that Mr. Trevor read my letter?" demanded Lady Buxted indignantly. "Your secretary?"
"I employ him to read my letters," explained his lordship.(Alverstroke)
"Not those written by your nearest and dearest!"
"Oh, no, not them!" he agreed.

Georgette Heyer

#10. Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#11. You've already said this is your dream job. And forgive me if I'm wrong, but I promised before God, Reverend Walsh, and a congregation of our nearest and dearest to 'cherish you, uphold your hopes and dreams, and keep you safe at my side.'

E.L. James

#12. The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to the hearts of American politicians.

Woody Harrelson

#13. 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

#14. ... often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.

Louisa May Alcott

#15. Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

#16. Four little chests all in a row,
Dim with dust, and worn by time,
Four women, taught by weal and woe
To love and labor in their prime. "
"Four sisters, parted for an hour,
None lost, one only gone before,
Made by love's immortal power,
Nearest and dearest evermore.

Louisa May Alcott

#17. The subject had reference to secret sin and those sad mysteries which we hide from our nearest and dearest, and would fain conceal from our own consciousness, even forgetting that the Omniscient can detect them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#18. I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. My friends tend not to style me, fortunately. But if we're in a public setting, they must do it there. Of course, there has been a maturing process for me and for them. But such is my life. I'm very comfortable with both the role and the life I live in relation to my nearest and dearest.

Mette-Marit, Crown Princess Of Norway

#20. All I'm saying is that your happiness is in your hands and those of your nearest and dearest. And if you think I'm going to show up two decades or so down the line to collect your soul in my moldy old pocketbook, you'd better think again. The souls of humans have become poor and transparent things.

Stephen King

#21. No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.

Agatha Christie

#22. Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.

John Cornwell

#23. The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics.

Dennis Miller

#24. To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

Bernhard Goetz

#25. Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.

Gerry Spence

#26. Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop we die. We have either to go forward or to go backward. We have either to progress or to degenerate.

Swami Vivekananda

#27. Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.

Hugh Howey

#28. And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.

Nizar Qabbani

#29. Every time you see your belly button, remember that your life is connected with the life of the planet,

Ilchi Lee

#30. Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

Gwen Stefani

#31. Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

Pamela Ribon

#32. If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world,
then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it.

Toba Beta

#33. To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!

Frances Burney

#34. If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.

Larry Fitzgerald

#35. Happiness has a simple recipe. Cherish your dearest, welcome your nearest, admire the simplest, honor the littlest, ignore the meaningless.

Olarewaju Oladipo

#36. The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no edios, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

Eric Voegelin

#37. Everything starts as somebody's dream.

Larry Niven

#38. To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

Emma Watson

#39. My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams

John Taliaferro

#40. Ambassadors, of course, do not blush. It is a requisite of the job that they can sustain any manner of insult without any visible change at all to their face.

Sarah Dunant