Top 100 Nearest Quotes
#1. Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
William Faulkner
#2. Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
#3. Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.
Fred G. Gosman
#5. I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted.
Theodore Roosevelt
#7. I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
Groucho Marx
#8. Well, I can promise you something, " I say, leaning down and pressing my lips gently to the side of her neck just below her ear. "Next time you make me hard in public, I will fuck you in the nearest bathroom. Understood?
Caisey Quinn
#9. The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.
Fred Rogers
#10. Okay, okay, you win. One-just one- date. But that's all." She didn't look at Josh, just stalked off toward the nearest exit. "Do you get all your dates by blackmail?"
"Nope," he said cheerily as he easily kept pace with her. "Only the ones that matter
Dani Harper
#11. One must love what is nearest, one must love what is to hand, as a dog loves".
J.M. Coetzee
#12. Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way:
William Shakespeare
#13. That must be strange, cheating on your wife with a flight attendant. They're in bed and she's says, 'In the event that wife should come home early please notice the location of the nearest emergency exit.'
Jay Leno
#14. [W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]
Richard Baxter
#15. You must pray for him, my child. It is to such as he that our Blessed Mother comes nearest.
Willa Cather
#16. By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.
Swami Vivekananda
#18. It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.
Tristram Stuart
#19. If anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head.
John Green
#20. Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Meister Eckhart
#21. People automatically estimate a mom's IQ at around her children's ages, maybe dividing by the number of kids, rounding up to the nearest pajama size.
Barbara Kingsolver
#22. Thanks." Dave put the car in reverse. Backing carefully around the workers, he parked in the nearest lot, then sprinted across the roadway to the side entrance of Sisters of the Holy Rosary Hospital.
Mary SanGiovanni
#23. Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.
Louisa May Alcott
#24. I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. Ms. McMartin had no close family. Her nearest relative was a distant cousin who had recently died in Shanghai, after a severe allergic reaction to a bowl of turtle and arsenic soup.
Jacqueline West
#26. On a low coffee table, with circular and semicircular stains bitten into the dark veneer, lay a few wilted numbers of Time and Life. I flipped to the middle of the nearest magazine. The face of Eisenhower beamed up at me, bald and blank as the face of a fetus in a bottle.
Sylvia Plath
#27. When there's lightning, don't stand alone or think you'll be protected by hiding in the trees. Find the nearest ditch and lie as low in it as you can.
Patricia Cornwell
#28. I live on a farm in Dorset. The nearest neighbour is a quarter of a mile away. It's really quiet, with an amazing view - can't see a pylon, can't see a road. Blockbuster's an event in our house, when the little blue envelope comes in.
Martin Clunes
#29. The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.
Ross Macpherson Smith
#30. It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#31. People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
George Eliot
#32. Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!
Charles Dickens
#33. I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria," I threatened. "I hope you like elephant polo."
-Liberty Jones
Lisa Kleypas
#35. Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
Henry Ward Beecher
#37. Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.
Alan Shepard
#38. When life hands you lemons, grab the nearest bottle of vodka and make yourself a cocktail.
Brandi Glanville
#39. What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.
Walt Whitman
#41. Don't nobody ever want it to rain," the nearest of the sellers of beasts remarked philosophically, "but everybody wants to go on eatin'.
Gene Wolfe
#42. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
#43. Reacher said, "Our nearest tanks are a thousand miles from Yemen or Afghanistan, and they take weeks and weeks and thousands of people to move. It would be easier to bring Yemen or Afghanistan to them. Also faster and less obtrusive.
Lee Child
#44. Those nearest to our nearest may not happen to be the people who would have been our chief chosen friends, but they must be our friends; or memories are wounded and life made very ugly.
G.K. Chesterton
#45. That's what an idiot does when he gets angry. He destroys whatever's nearest, even if it's his own house!
Joe Abercrombie
#46. Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the grounds of our personal lot.62
Steven Pinker
#47. She eased across the creaking floorboards to the nearest window.
The view encompassed the woods, with dark shapes smeared into one entity, like in her sketchbook.
What lay amongst the trees?
Jordan Elizabeth Mierek
#48. Richard Parker found himself on a dinghy with three other men, floating over a thousand kilometres from the nearest land.
Eleanor Learmonth
#49. I never before knew the full value of trees ... What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.
Thomas Jefferson
#51. 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
#52. Museum's Grand Gallery. He lunged for the nearest painting he could see, a Caravaggio. Grabbing
Dan Brown
#53. If we divide up the world's land area evenly, there's enough room for each of us to have a little over 2 hectares each, with the nearest person 77 meters away.
Randall Munroe
#54. Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.
Laurence Olivier
#55. We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.
Edith Wharton
#56. Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.
Terry Pratchett
#57. The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
Ben Jonson
#58. The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.
Ronald Reagan
#59. When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.
Brian Patten
#60. Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
Socrates
#61. Gone to the nearest public-house. That is the centre of country gossip. They would have told you every name, from the master to the scullery-maid.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#62. Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
#63. the remnants of a person's life inevitably ended up at the nearest dump.
Henning Mankell
#64. I now had two handy shafts of wood with jagged, pointy ends. I stepped between Inari and the nearest vampire and passed her one broken half of the rod. "Here," I said. "If you get the chance, make like Buffy.
Jim Butcher
#65. Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption sooner in your poor estate, than that which is nearest your own.
Frances Osborne
#66. I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.
Herb Alpert
#67. Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us.
Pope Francis
#68. Perhaps the nearest one could get to a common characteristic of poststructuralism would be a radical suspicion of reason, order and certainty as governing principles of knowledge and existence...the absurd and the irrational can no longer be distinguished from the real and the rational
Margaret Maclure
#69. When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.
William Zinsser
#70. Of all teachings that which presents a far distant God is the nearest to absurdity. Either there is none, or he is nearer to every one of us than our nearest consciousness of self. An unapproachable divinity is the veriest of monsters, the most horrible of human imaginations.
George MacDonald
#71. Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?"
I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk.
"So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?
Becca Fitzpatrick
#72. Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness.
John F. Carlson
#73. All the little man on the witness stand had that made him any better than his nearest neighbours was that, if scrubbed with lye soap in very hot water, his skin was white.
Harper Lee
#74. Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone
Edith Wharton
#76. The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.
Charlotte Bronte
#77. Everything existing in the world "falls to the bottom." The "bottom" for any part of the Universe is its nearest "stability," and this stability is the point toward which all the lines of force from all directions converge.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#78. The best things in life are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#79. I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.
Susan Hill
#80. It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.
Peter Steele
#81. He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.
John McGraw
#82. Even if you know where you are going and what problems you have to solve, you may only know the nearest tasks and you may not understand completely all of your tasks
Sunday Adelaja
#83. The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.
William Gurnall
#84. He watched me rake my fingers through the tangles in my hair and smiled.
"Quit it. You're fucking beautiful."
"Just point me to the nearest eighties rock video," I said.
Jamie McGuire
#85. When I was six or seven, we went to the nearest English primary school, St Weonards, about seven miles away. The teaching was good, and this was the start of my beginning to shine as a student.
Saul David
#86. 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
#87. This invisible and divine goodness, of which I only speak here because of its being one of the surest and nearest signs of the unceasing activity of our soul, this invisible and divine goodness ennobles, in decisive fashion, all that it has unconsciously touched.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#88. 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
#89. Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
J.G. Holland
#90. Just then, thunder boomed overhead. Lightning flashed, and the bars on the nearest window burst into sizzling, melted stubs of iron. Jason flew in like Peter Pan, electricity sparking around him and his gold sword steaming. Leo whistled appreciatively. Man, you just wasted an awesome entrance.
Rick Riordan
#91. People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
William Penn
#92. Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
Michel De Montaigne
#93. Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four A.M.
Wally Lamb
#94. On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.
John Dyer
#95. I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
C. Wright Mills
#97. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts
Woodrow Wilson
#98. When everything seems too far away from you, don't despair, return to yourself because you are the nearest thing to yourself! Accumulate energy with yourself! Then you will feel powerful to reach even beyond the far things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. I cannot see how it can be argued that one should speak in tones of reverence and awe about the alleged divine instruction-in Psalms-to grab the defenseless bodies of innocent infants and dash their brains out against the nearest rocks or walls.
Steve Allen
#100. I picked up the nearest weapon I could lay my hands on: a stapler. I lifted it, going for "menacing." I admit it lacked a certain elegance, but hey. It was worth a shot. David placed his hand on my arm and pushed it back down.
"What?"
"Just ... that's embarrassing for all of us," he replied.
Rachel Hawkins
