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Quotes About Closer

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.
~ Alva Noto
I guess television is so much on the word. It's so much closer to playwriting - the scale is more just about the voices and the internal lives. Movies, it's a very different canvas.
~ Edward Zwick
And yet there's other species even closer to zero. I know that. And I hope to God somebody else is worrying about 'em. I often ask myself, would I slit my own throat if I was guaranteed I could save one species by slitting it? We all know one human life is worth more than one bird's life. But is my miserable little life worth a whole species?
~ Jonathan Franzen
For there clings to him something that often overwhelms us— memory, a recollection that whatever we're striving for now was once closer and truer, and that its union with us was incredibly tender. Here, everything is distance; There, is was breath.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away--
~ Ahdaf Soueif
Home feels very cinematic: the further you are from the screen, the clearer the picture. The closer, the more pixelated and fragmented.
~ Akram Al Deek
I think if a personal connection seems far off, I have to work and find a way to bring it closer to me, or I don't feel grounded.
~ Trieste Kelly Dunn
I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
~ Nancy Pickard
Since you like baseball, I guess you know what a closer is?" "Of course." "Tiffany doesn't." "Tiffany is so not into sports." She thought a baseball diamond was a type of gemstone. Seriously. Don't even ask how that revelation came up.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Bran held his voice level. In time, you will regret these words. You may hold me captive now, and believe me helpless. But each foulword you speak of her brings your death a little closer. --Bran to Eamonn
~ Juliet Marillier
My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.
~ John Bolton
If we think that God loves us only if we act in a certain way, we will see our lives as a time of testing. We need to rise to the challenge, to avoid mistakes, to labor to do the right thing. But if God is Love loving, our life is a time of growing and maturing. "All the things in this world" are ways to become closer to God.
~ David L. Fleming
Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.
~ Mother Teresa
...hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.
~ Billy Graham
I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.
~ Dennis Eckersley
Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.
~ Carl Jung
There is nothing you can ever do or attain that will get you closer to salvation than it is at this moment.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the secret of the 'Old One.' I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.
~ Albert Einstein
Exploration of closer planets will continue. Only after he exhausts all the resources here on earth will man go further ahead, which is when interplanetary travel may take place.
~ Rakesh Sharma
I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
~ Eden Hazard
The people need someone who's closer to them and the American people need someone who will be their change agent and fight for the issues that are important to them.
~ Wayne Messam
We're getting closer to our nature.
~ Clifford Geertz
The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.
~ Paul G. Tremblay