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  • Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. -- Sophocles
  • The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  • I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out. -- Clara Hughes
  • All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. -- Francis Thompson
  • If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them. -- Mary Antin
  • Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do. -- George Steiner
  • I'd like to make character-based dramas. I end up writing thrillers a lot - these psychological character-based things with weird people doing horrible things to each other - coming to a theatre near you! -- Joseph Mazzello
  • Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. -- Philip Stanhope
  • I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved. -- Dido Armstrong
  • My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life. -- Alex Trebek
  • I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is. -- Lindsey Shaw
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  • After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. -- David Sedaris
  • At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it. -- Thomas Dolby
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  • I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that. -- Michelle Forbes
  • I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese. -- Phil Collins
  • It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.' -- David Suzuki
  • LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box. -- Jesse Schell
  • God hides things by putting them near us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her. -- Francis Quarles
  • Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective. -- Anne Shropshire
  • There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you. -- Woody Allen
  • My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things. -- Grover Cleveland
  • Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love. -- Sandra Lee Dennis
  • There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at. -- Nigel Cooke
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  • Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future. -- Nick Saban
  • I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand. -- John Harvey Kellogg
  • Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.-- -- Robert Murray McCheyne
  • And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her. -- Veronica Roth
  • Brandon Wegher left camp to deal with some personal things. We hope he can return in the very near future -- Kirk Ferentz
  • How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • Bashar Assad has said many things. We will see in the near term whether he is serious about a political process. -- Adel al-Jubeir
  • The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things. -- Mencius
  • When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay. -- Gautama Buddha
  • People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that. -- Damien Hirst
  • Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near. -- Frederick Buechner
  • If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth. -- Khalil Gibran
  • Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way. -- Confucius
  • I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things. -- Phil Keoghan
  • Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to. -- Erich Maria Remarque
  • I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process. -- Todd Rundgren
  • In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they did at a distance. -- Carl von Clausewitz
  • The couture client wants the latest things, but she wants the clothes to be super-special - the fabrics won't even touch or go near anything like prêt-à-porter. -- Riccardo Tisci
  • That sounds really simplistic, but if I'm in an enclosed space, or my apartment, and I live very close to a park - there's something about being outside and being near things that are green. -- Ingrid Michaelson
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