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Quotes About Close

I have distanced what is behind me for good reasons, And call any thing close again when I desire it.
~ Walt Whitman
My truest desire is fellowship with good friends, the love of a caring family, and a close relationship with God.
~ Wanda E. Brunstetter
It was my life - like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and scared. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.
~ Cheryl Strayed
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
At a certain age some people's minds close up. Then they live on their intellectual fat.
~ W. L. Phelps
Up from behind a sand dune close beside her rose the form of her enemy Bitterness. He did not come any nearer, having learned a little more prudence, and was not going to make her call for the Shepherd if he could avoid it, but simply stood and looked at her and laughed and laughed again, the bitterest sound that Much-Afraid had heard in all her life.
~ Hannah Hurnard
Close but no cigar
~ Lawrence Sanders
Maybe there weren't fairytales, or dreams didn't often really come true, but this moment felt very close. As close as it gets to perfect in an imperfect world.
~ Lee Woodruff
She said, 'I'll make tea; I'd like a cup myself.' She was very close to me, standing in front of the mirror. She glanced at her reflection as she straightened her hair and smoothed her rumpled nightdress. It was thin, almost transparent, and the light was shining through it. 'Come here, duchess,' I said. 'I don't feel like tea just yet.
~ Len Deighton
These smaller whaleboats are not powered by sails when they are on the close hunt, but by oars, which the men ply with rippling swiftness, as if they are the wind over choppy water.
~ Jane Yolen
That was close,he said, helping himself to coffee. Yeah, you almost opened the door to Morelli. I wasn't talking about Morelli. I was talking about us. That too, I said. Ranger sliced a bagel and looked for the toaster. It's broken,I told him. He truned the boiler on and slid the bagel into the oven. That's surprisingly domestic for a man of mystery, I said to him. He looked at me over the rim of his coffee mug. I like things hot.
~ Janet Evanovich
Ranger's Cayenne pulled in behind the SUV. Ranger got out, scooped me up off the ground, and held me close.
~ Janet Evanovich
Ranger leaned closer and lowered his voice.
~ Janet Evanovich
RANGER HAD BEEN Special Forces, and he still had the build and the carriage. He was standing close, forcing me to tip my head back ever so slightly to look into his eyes.
~ Janet Evanovich
My mom and I shopped for my 'X Factor' outfits at La Cantera. We went to Forever 21 and Urban Outfitters. I live really close to the mall, so I'd always go there to shop.
~ Ally Brooke
The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.
~ Mike Rowe
I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
~ Bob Balaban
There are always moments of despair when you get close to jobs and lose them at the last second. It feels like getting punched in the stomach. You feel like, 'Why do I do this?' Then you go to bed, get up the next day and forget about it.
~ Ricky Schroder
Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic.
~ Isabella Rossellini
I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.
~ Tite Kubo
wasn't anywhere near the
~ Tobias S. Buckell
People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.
~ John Schneider
I'm happy in Oklahoma. It's closer to family. Nobody expects anything of you there.
~ Tommy Morrison
I'm an only child, and we're a close family.
~ Maika Monroe