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Quotes About Nearby

On one level, a roomful of men is always a dangerous thing. Competition is usually in the air, so the potential for violence is always nearby.
~ Brennan Manning
Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at the same time bringing the end nearer and that joyous watchwords like forward and farther are the lascivious voice of death urging us to hasten to it. (If fascination with the word forward has become universal, isn't it mainly because death is already speaking to us from nearby?)
~ Milan Kundera
We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Now they must be directed toward an inner, psychological reality. "No one thought of looking for the promised land where it is, and yet it lies so nearby. There it is: inside ourselves!… The promised land is wherever we carry it!
~ Carl E. Schorske
hunt nearby. The tree
~ Suzanne Collins
The Flamingo, as Siegel named his hotel, was a castle in the wasteland with a lot of tamed water nearby. And
~ Tim Powers
I shot Footloose nearby, and we used to hike. Very fond memories.
~ Dianne Wiest
Hubble has established for the first time that the distant universe looks different from the nearby universe.
~ Sandra Faber
We were told there was a village nearby that might enjoy our skills." "You were misinformed," Buttercup told him. "There is no one, not for many miles." "Then there will be no one to hear you scream," the Sicilian said, and he jumped with frightening agility toward her face. William Goldman, The Princess Bride
~ Cornelia Funke
wasn't anywhere near the
~ Tobias S. Buckell
EVEN TENSION! DAMN IT!" a woman's voice screamed nearby, with all the grace of a chain saw. Rachel looked over to see a small woman
~ Dan Brown
I am always nearby, when someone wants to realize their destiny
~ Paulo Coelho
Williston isn't that far from here," said Kelly.
~ David Baldacci
And then I heard the most beautiful sound of my life. Somewhere nearby, a cat let out an angry, hissing scream.
~ Jim Butcher
the kingdom of God is so close and nearby that we might have overstepped it in our amusement in the playgrounds of promise.
~ Unknown
If we gain something, it was there from    the beginning. If we lose anything, it is hidden nearby.
~ Jack Kornfield
just an ASR-33 Teletype terminal that could dial in to a nearby GE Mark II time-sharing system, which offered little more than GE's version of BASIC.
~ Unknown
Three brown horses thundered in circles in a nearby pen, panicked by the flames and running in circles to avoid a danger that wasn't even a minor threat to them. Idiot creatures. Not unlike humans.
~ Unknown
Only the most extraordinary men can choose the remote cliffs as their graveyards; others are always condemned to nearby city gardens!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Within a stone's throw of it.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
would be to start local. Assuming
~ Peter James
When some of those standing nearby heard this, they said, “Behold, He is calling Elijah.”
~ Mark 15:35