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Quotes About Close

Often we are not aware of how close we are to that which we need but we think we do not have. In His grace, God has placed some hidden gold somewhere in all of us that meets our need at a desperate moment.
~ Ravi Zacharias
These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Nothing is 'mythic,' close up. Nothing is 'mythic' where you live.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
As it turned out, the obvious clearly stated, and combined with new observations, was sometimes close to revolutionary.
~ Wallace Stegner
Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.
~ Walt Whitman
A miss is as good as a mile.
~ Walter Scott
Until I began to see my depression as a constant reminder that I needed to stay close to God, it was simply an annoying pain that plagued me daily. My first step toward rehabilitation was to see my depression as a positive challenge that drew me closer to Christ on a daily basis.
~ Wayne Cordeiro
PRAYER Father, may I be so close to You that I can hear Your musings and be moved to action!
~ Wayne Cordeiro
My old Corona sat in front of the majestic iron gates of 4 Gwendolin Close, Dalkeith, like herpes on a beauty queen's mouth
~ Dave Warner
for now, almost was good enough
~ James Dashner
All you have to do is close your eyes and endure the … intense sensations you're about to experience." "You mean the unbearable pain,"Bryson muttered. "Pain that's going to make me cry.
~ James Dashner
The boat is very close now, its noises filling the air along with the smell of fuel. Mark can see the faint shadow of two people behind the darkened window
~ James Dashner
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
~ James Dean
Death had brushed hard against him
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Of course. You have always tried to escape.' 'And I have always harmed the friends who have tried to stop me,' Lymond said. His voice was uninflected. He added, 'I have tried many times to warn you not to come too close to me.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
It seems to me that the whole field of humour could benefit from close and immediate scrutiny. Clearly we need to sort out the jokes which have any kind of genuine psychological value from those which merely encourage drug abuse and should be stopped.
~ Douglas Adams
the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.'" As
~ Douglas Adams
Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour' 'Well, it's bloody close...' 'Well, they often are....
~ Alan Hollinghurst
smashing into the wreck, mere inches separating him from the accident.
~ Alan Russell
There was another intelligence out there, close enough to touch. And even if they were now gone, then the mere existence of their handiwork was wonder enough to fundamentally change humanity's view of the universe.
~ Alastair Reynolds
There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant.
~ Sylvester Stallone
I don't think anyone in the world could play my father, look just like him, act just like him, and make you believe he's Johnny Cash. Joaquin Phoenix gets as close as anybody I think ever could.
~ John Carter Cash
I'm kind of selective of the people that I take photos of. Like, I don't take pictures of just my friends, but I do like taking pictures of just some of my close mates, especially out in L.A.
~ Brooklyn Beckham
I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.
~ Uzo Aduba