Closest Quotes - Page 23

• Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

  Philip Roth

  Playfulness, Seriousness, Closest Friends

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Aug 08, 2011

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• Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Tears, Attention

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• The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

  Peter Kreeft

  Christian, Suffering, Worst

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• I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

  Katherine Paterson

  Writing, Revision, Our Lives

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• The closest friends you'll have are the ones you'd take a bullet for, but they're the ones you constantly feel you could put a bullet in as well.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Bullets, Wells, Feels

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• It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Reading, People, Touching

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• The plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi...who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one.

  Stanley Wolpert

  Struggle, Long, Vision

  "Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why are William and Kate paying tribute to him on their visit to India?" by Kirstie McCrum, www.mirror.co.uk. April 11, 2016.

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• Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.

  Golo Mann

  Deals, Knows

  "Thomas Mann and his family". Book by Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Collins, p. 187, 1989.

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• The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

  Ann Voskamp

  Children, Light, Warning

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• The best accessories a girl can have are her closest friends.

  Paris Hilton

  Girl, Accessories, Closest Friends

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• Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just got to remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.

  Michael Douglas

  People, Effort, Remember

  "Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones Back Together - and Doing 'Great'" by Elizabeth Gonzalez, abcnews.go.com. May 9, 2014.

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• Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

  Simon Van Booy

  Children, Adults, Finals

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.80, Oneworld Publications

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• Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.

  Jenny Han

  Important

  Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• I love pensioners. My closest relations are pensioners.

  Clive Palmer

  Relation

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• But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

  Margaret Spellings

  Believe, Holding On, Program

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?

  Corin Nemec

  Character, Personality, Trying

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

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• Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything else, I think it's the closest that a man can come to knowing what is feels like to have a baby.

  Harry Crews

  Baby, Book, Writing

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• Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are but, more often than not, God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Soul, Secret

  Frederick Buechner (2017). “A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory”, p.60, Zondervan

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• Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Creativity, Reality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.133, Vintage

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• I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

  Spalding Gray

  Painter, Extensions, Breaths

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• I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or see others facing tests, they assume Allah must be angry with them. SubhannAllah! Remember which people were tested the most: The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Believe, Punishment, People

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• Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

  Anne Lamott

  Dog, Knowing, Sides

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• I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.

  Anne Sexton

  Love, Prayer, Heart

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.342, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Leader’s potential is determined by those closest to him.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Determined

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Law of the Inner Circle: Lesson 11 from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and disruptions, work and play, discoveries and disappointments. Think about who you met, or missed. Think about your moments of aloneness. In all, ask two questions: when was I most alive, most present, most filled and fulfilled today? And when was I most taxed, stressed, distracted, depleted today? A simpler, and more spiritually focused, version of those questions: when did I feel closest to God, and when farthest?

  Mark Buchanan

  Disappointment, Thinking, Reflection

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