Closest Quotes - Page 16

• You are who you associate with.  Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are.  If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.

  Nas

  Looks, Want, Persons

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• At the Cardiff World Cup I really would like to make the final. The favorites are still Peter, Daniele or Vavra, but I will try to do my best in order to be closest as possible to these athletes.

  Benjamin Boukpeti

  Athlete, Order, Trying

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• Reflecting back on your life is not only food for thought, but a Wiseman's bridge looking at how and why, you made your path for today! Will be most important, when you find yourself at the crossroads of tomorrow. Remember the goals you set yourself, travel the path closest to your heart. Trust your heart, your instincts, your soul.

  Ron Bennington

  Inspirational, Heart, Bridges

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• We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese-or at least manage like them.

  Jack Welch

  Running, Business, Lying

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• We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first. It's the reason... we have to get burned before we understand the power of fire; the reason our most meaningful relationships are so often those that continued beyond the very juncture at which they came the closest to ending.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Meaningful, Selfish, Reality

  "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar". Book by Cheryl Strayed, July 10, 2012.

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• Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is.

  Justin Cronin

  Believe, Character, Forgiving

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• What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go on living, most of the time. But this not knowing is precisely what I want to preserve. As readers, the closest way we can engage with a literary work is to protect its indeterminacy; to return ourselves and it to a place that precludes complete recognition. Really, when I’m reading, all I want is to stand amazed in front of an unknown object at odds with the world.

  M. John Harrison

  Reading, Writing, Knowing

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• I can't say I cared much for you when I first came back. There's that crappy attitude of yours, and you're ugly, but you kind of grow on a guy." Immensely cheered, Seth snickered. "You're uglier." "I'm bigger, I'm entitled. So I guess I'll hang around to see if you get any prettier as time goes on." "I didn't really want you to go," Seth said under his breath after a long moment. It was the closest he could get to speaking his heart. "I know.

  Nora Roberts

  Attitude, Heart, Long

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Chesapeake Bay Saga 1-4”, p.226, Penguin

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• ...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

  Jim C. Hines

  Church, Library, Bookstores

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• He closed his eyes and let out a jagged breath. "Okay." He settled between my legs holding himself over me. "I've never been with a virgin, Eva. I'm going to try real hard not to hurt you." "Will it hurt you?" I asked, thinking about his pained expression when he'd said I was too tight. He smiled, "It's going to be the closest to heaven I'll ever get, baby.

  Abbi Glines

  Baby, Hurt, Real

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• All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

  Julius Wellhausen

  Unity, Way, Worship

  Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

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• At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

  George Carlin

  Party, Cooking Dinner, Bathroom

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Intelligent, Needs, Next

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• A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.

  Shimon Peres

  Believe, Two, Israel

  Presidential Medal of Freedom Acceptance Address, delivered 13 June 2012, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

  Rick Perry

  Running, Views, Water

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• The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

  Elvis Presley

  Singing, Records, Firsts

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• I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

  Branch Rickey

  Courage, Children, Want

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• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, 17 Aug. 1901

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• Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Inspiration, Hamilton

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Winning 'Motor Trend' Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

  Elon Musk

  Winning, Years, Car

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you.

  Mickey Rourke

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• I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Community, Able

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• Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.

  James Salter

  Brother, Interesting, Parent

  "James Salter Interview: The Most Famous Writer You’ve Never Heard Of". Interview with Michael Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2013.

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• I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums, and so forth that I visit regularly. That's the closest thing I have to a strategy: I go to a lot of places, many that artists don't visit.

  Jerry Saltz

  New York, Artist, Space

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• I have a few caftans just for lounging purposes. When I want to feel free, it's the closest thing to feeling naked without being naked.

  Jill Scott

  Feelings, Naked, Purpose

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