Top 100 Nearest Quotes
#1. Make sure that the very different colors go next to each other so it looks deliberate. You don't want to look as if you've just run out of colour and gone for the next nearest thing.
Jackie Kay
#2. Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#3. The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
Lord Byron
#4. We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.
Willard Boyle
#5. Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.
H.G.Wells
#6. 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
#7. Boys, tell your mother to shut her lying whore mouth before I shove the nearest apple down her throat.
Jason Aaron
#8. When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
Henry Ward Beecher
#9. If I lose and have nothing when this is over, you can still drop me with my guitar by parachute anywhere in America; I'll walk to the nearest roadhouse, find a pickup band and light up your night. Just because I can.
Bruce Springsteen
#10. The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one.
C.S. Lewis
#11. Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Samuel Johnson
#12. Could not have seemed to myself further from my hopes when I was nearest to her. The
Charles Dickens
#13. The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
Robert Frost
#14. Why do we trust one another so little? I know there must be a reason, but still I sometimes think it's horrible that you find you can never really confide in people, even in those who are nearest to you.
Anne Frank
#15. I put myself in the studio and I really made sure to say, 'Well, if I would normally reach for a trumpet, why don't I reach for the next nearest instrument instead?'
Zach Condon
#16. I relinquish control. Not that she'd ever fully had it. In four swift strides, he was on her, lifting her, and slamming her back against the nearest wall.
Pam Godwin
#17. The only thing her mother knew how to do was take. Take interest, take advantage, then take the nearest exit. Too bad she never learned to take responsibility.
Victorine E. Lieske
#18. We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time ... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.
Oswald Chambers
#20. I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
W.G. Sebald
#21. That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
Walter Savage Landor
#22. What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
Henry David Thoreau
#23. Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety.
J.G. Ballard
#24. Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something.
Andrew Natsios
#26. I was usually hungry enough to eat what I was given without comment, but if the Earl served boiled tongue or calves' foot jelly, I fully intended to wrap it in my napkin and hide it in the nearest umbrella stand.
Alyxandra Harvey
#27. Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.
Neil Kinnock
#28. Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
Alexander John Ellis
#29. The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies ... Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.
George Eliot
#30. 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
#31. [T]wo Americans re-encountering each other after a certain time in a foreign land are supposed to clamber up their nearest lampposts and wait tremblingly for it all to blow over.
Elaine Dundy
#32. Having realized that her affection for Sinclair went far beyond friendship, there was only one thing for her to do. She took off her hat and banged her head against the nearest lamppost.
Also realizing she was drawing attention from passerby, she put her hat back on and resumed walking.
Shirley Karr
#33. We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
Norman Mailer
#34. Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#35. Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection.
Wes Fesler
#36. I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
Edward Abbey
#37. I THINK the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lord's table.
Charles Spurgeon
#38. I doubt there is even a word in Afghani for peace. Nearest to it is probably a phrase that translates as "just getting my break back and reloading
Nick Revell
#39. In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
Ben Carson
#40. And sometimes I sit there late at night or early in the morning, and I think about the vastness of the ocean, of the sky, of the spaces between us and the nearest stars, about the incredible, unfathomable bigness of it all.
Brendan Halpin
#41. Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#42. T. S. Eliot told Auden tht the reason he played patience night after night was that it was the nearest thing to being dead.
Howard Jacobson
#43. For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.
George R R Martin
#44. The most remote place I've been to was in Greenland. I remember setting out for a solo hike from a small cabin, itself several hours' boat ride from the nearest settlement.
Michelle Paver
#45. They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A guide ceases to be of any use when he strides so far ahead as to be hidden by the curvature of the earth.
George Iles
#46. I want to give you a choice depending on what you're in the mood for." "Okay." "We can go find the nearest hotel, and I can make love to you in a bed or..." "Okay. Or?" "Or we can go outside right now and fuck hard in that alley.
Penelope Ward
#47. But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
Amelia Barr
#48. Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.
Homer
#49. Kezia could've guessed from the soapy scent wafting over her shoulder. Soap and something else. The XY factor that made some men smell so good you just wanted to lick the nearest inch of available skin.
Tracey Alvarez
#50. If you want a reliable tip, drive into a town, go to the nearest appliance store and seek out the dishwasher repair man. He spends a lot of time in restaurant kitchens and usually has strong opinions about them.
Bryan Q. Miller
#51. In a world divided by differences of nationality, race, colour, religion and wealth [the rule of law] is one of the greatest unifying factors, perhaps the greatest, the nearest we are likely to approach to a universal secular religion.
Tom Bingham
#52. To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#53. Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
David Mitchell
#54. At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
George Carlin
#55. For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.
Joseph Conrad
#56. The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#57. Sheets of flowing raven-black hair ... all wrapped up in that saccharin sweetness you only find in church-ladies and Girl Scout moms. It was enough to make a girl sprint to the nearest shopping mall for a free makeover.
Cecily White
#58. One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said Okay, I'm gonna tell you what to do. If the kid's bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock ...
Johnny Depp
#59. The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it
to realize it to the full
to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#60. Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart - the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#61. Grover went off with his satyr friends to spread the word about our strange encounter with the magic of Pan. Within an hour, the satyrs were all running around agitated, asking where the nearest espresso bar was.
Rick Riordan
#62. Some of you ... have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in paperback from your nearest bookseller. And if he-or she-does not have a copy, then beat the wretched fellow.
Kevin Myers
#63. Do you really want to kick a guy when he's down? Of course you do. That's when his head is nearest to your foot. You barely have to move it.
Kevin Seccia
#64. When the average American says, "I'm starving," it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-stocked refrigerator or a sudden trip to the nearest fast food restaurant.
Carolyn Custis James
#65. For my part,' said the little prince to himself, 'if I had fifty-three minutes to spare, I would take my time walking slowly towards the nearest fountain of water.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#66. Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.
Teresa Of Avila
#67. There are problems humans cannot solve, to wit: density dependent birth rates, loss of genetic diversity, the overturning of his population pyramid, traveling to the nearest star, and the extinction of Man.
Bill Gaede
#68. The most isolated inhabited island in the world is Tristan da Cunha, an active volcano located in the middle of the south Atlantic Ocean 1,242 miles (2,000 kilometers) from the nearest land. Tristan da Cunha is Portuguese for "Where the fuck are we?!
Cary McNeal
#69. Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#70. A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.
Pete Carril
#71. If you speak of this I will tear out your voice and top it down the nearest drain
Patricia A. McKillip
#72. The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"
Benjamin Franklin
#73. The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.
James Madison
#74. ... often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
Louisa May Alcott
#75. Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.
John Osborne
#76. I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation.
Maureen Lipman
#77. Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.
J.C. Ryle
#78. William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.
Kenneth Tynan
#79. Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.
Socrates
#81. Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.
Laurence Olivier
#82. You need to own your feelings. Get more comfortable expressing yourself."
"How about I express you out the nearest window?
Greg Cox
#83. I swear to God," she muttered, fighting a laugh, "if you've dusted me with blue, I'll tie your balls in a knot and hang you up by them on the nearest sharp object I see.
Nalini Singh
#84. The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
Josh Billings
#86. If we were alone, he would have thrown me up against the nearest wall, and holy hell, I would have let him.
T.A. Roth
#87. Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.
William Hazlitt
#88. What couldn't I do now, having already committed such a breach of fashion logic and lived to tell the tale? Why couldn't I pretend to be a woman with a solid core of self-worth, who likes herself no matter what the nearest handsome man or evil mother thinks of her?
Laurie Viera Rigler
#89. We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#91. VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.
Ambrose Bierce
#92. Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie.
Antonin Scalia
#93. I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.
Noel Coward
#94. Look for where the sky is brightest along the horizon. That reflects the nearest river. Strike out for a river and you will find habitation.
Eudora Welty
#95. Well, I would throw myself under the nearest bus, but considering my luck today, I'm sure it would break down less than a millimeter from me and just ruin my clothes ... Probably break my watch, too. (Taryn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#96. I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!
Sharon Swan
#97. I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Cato The Elder
#98. The nearest inhabited village is about seven of your English miles to the left.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#99. Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.
James Russell Lowell
#100. The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
Khalil Gibran
