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Quotes About Nearest

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.
~ John Cornwell
But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life
~ Renata Adler
Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.
~ Socrates
They say stars have greatest influences when they are in conjunction with the sun; then sure the graces of a saint should never work more powerfully than in prayer, for then he is in the nearest conjunction and communion with God. That
~ William Gurnall
I give my soul to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin, charging them to remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.
~ Michelangelo
The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?
~ Janet Fitch
The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.
~ Charles Studd
We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.
~ Edith Wharton
He knew, too, that nukes were locked in on Area X from the nearest silos, military satellites keeping watch from above.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
When the population of Kzin grows too great, we— Attack the nearest human world.
~ Larry Niven
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!
~ Charles Dickens
I listen to it ring as I back out and start driving toward the nearest Panda Express. Cheap Chinese food--is there a better lunch?
~ Erynn Mangum
The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life
~ Renata Adler, Pitch Dark
Manfred," I began, exasperated, "I just don't know what to do with you." "I have some very good ideas," he said. He waggled his eyebrows. He was making it funny, but he was serious. I never doubted that at my slightest response, Manfred would be booking us into the nearest hotel as fast as he could whip out his wallet.
~ Charlaine Harris
The subject had reference to secret sin and those sad mysteries which we hide from our nearest and dearest, and would fain conceal from our own consciousness, even forgetting that the Omniscient can detect them.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.
~ Cassandra Clare
Do you mean to tell me that Mr. Trevor read my letter?" demanded Lady Buxted indignantly. "Your secretary?" "I employ him to read my letters," explained his lordship.(Alverstroke) "Not those written by your nearest and dearest!" "Oh, no, not them !" he agreed.
~ Georgette Heyer
Put up a winery and you get ten thousand wine-sipping yuppie slime from the nearest urban center.
~ Nelson DeMille
He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.
~ Cassandra Clare
True, I do love finding something nice for my nearest and dearest, but there is still a pressure to find the perfect present for every member of the family.
~ Kate Garraway
At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.
~ James Patterson
The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?
~ Janet Fitch