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Quotes About Close

One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.
~ Edward Tenner
After that I was free to enjoy the rest of my unforgettable vacation, and now that I had seen the life of the stars up close, I was cured once and for all of my delusions of fame.
~ Anne Frank
There is a fear of immorality and disease in our midst. We don't like to be reminded of such things so close to home. We feel guilty that it happens while we are perfectly well and comfortable ourselves. Africa is too far away to be our fault.
~ Anne Perry
You missed with me so close? What? You failed your assassin training classes? Did you even bother to show up? Or are you just that incompetent? (Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
I have two older brothers and they were a huge part of life; we were very close. We used to run around and get into trouble. That's what I came from - that exploring nature.
~ Jonny Weston
you became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close...
~ John Geddes
Una promesa suele estar tan cerca de ser una mentira como de ser una verdad»
~ John Katzenbach
The German tried to struggle up, but Tommy's legs wrapped around him, so they fought almost as close as lovers, but with murder their only kiss
~ John Katzenbach
grew up in Philadelphia and still live there. Is The Blessings autobiographical or otherwise informed by your experiences there? The characters in The Blessings are fictional, but the rhythms and rituals of this close family were certainly influenced
~ Elise Juska
I wanted to finish my investigation, when I was so close to answers that I could taste them.
~ Elizabeth Bear
This is as close to an act of love as thou wilt ever taste.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She didn't know how close to the heresy of the Go-Backs she trod.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.
~ Elizabeth Hurley
The end-Permian or Permo-Triassic extinction was the biggest of the Big Five, an episode that came scarily close to eliminating multicellular life altogether.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
I actually have seven brothers in real life, and we're all very close in age. We basically go no more than two years between any of us.
~ Norbert Leo Butz
We're a very close family and we're a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.
~ Emilio Estevez
I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.
~ Michael Haneke
When you are absorbed in a biographical subject, you get so close you don't realise the potential effect of what you say. You are trying to get at the truth.
~ Sarah Bradford
We got really close, but it was just too complicated and secretive to shoot at the Met Ball. That would have been the brass ring of 'Gossip Girl' episodes.
~ Stephanie Savage
Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.
~ Hal Sutton
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.
~ Noah Feldman
I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.
~ Joe Morgan