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Quotes About Closely

Come, Watson, we must really take a risk and try to investigate this a little more closely.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
position: absolute" positions an element based on the position of its most closely positioned parent.
~ Eric Freeman
Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
~ Bobby Seale
I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected
~ Robin Sloan
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.
~ Gilbert Murray
The truth is that America has been closely divided politically for quite some time. That was reflected in some of the challenges I had with the Republican Congress.
~ Barack Obama
I closely follow football (and basketball and baseball) for the right reasons, not the alarmingly irrelevant ones.
~ Skip Bayless
Now when a people has dictators, that is a symptom that they are running mad. They should be watched. I think they should be watched very closely. And later they should be prevented. Now think it is not a nation but an individual, now see, this is like he had a disease.
~ Stevie Smith
I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing.
~ George Ryan
And so night after night, the Thunderhead silently monitored Greyson in every way it could. Because monitoring was the closest it could come to embracing.
~ Neal Shusterman
conflict reinforces our need for God, drives us to him, forces us to look at him more closely, and deepens our trust.
~ Carolyn Custis James
Science fiction and fantasy are very closely related genres, and a lot of people say that the genres are so close that there's actually no meaningful distinction to be made between the two. But I think that there does exist an useful distinction to be made between magic and science. One way to look at it is in terms of whether a given phenomenon can be mass-produced.
~ Ted Chiang
Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.
~ Scott Brooks
So they watched Eliza closely for some small sign that it might be taking effect. There was no small sign. That is to say… the sign was not small.
~ Laini Taylor
NT, "God" is so closely linked with Jesus and Jesus so closely linked with "God" that one cannot adequately identify the one without reference to the other. Jesus is the one through whom "God's" eschatological redemption is now bestowed and is to be consummated.
~ Larry W. Hurtado
I started a festival of short films produced for television, and as the secretary of the organisation that ran it I used to work very closely with the state government.
~ Roopa Ganguly
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
~ Louise Brooks
The universe will do the writing for you, if you just listen closely enough.
~ Terri Guillemets
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.
~ Alister MacKenzie
Captain Bradbury's right eyebrow had now become so closely entangled with his left that there seemed no hope of ever extricating it without the aid of powerful machinery.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day world. I modify all the myths I use, but I stick very closely to their structure - it is the hidden teacher in me.
~ Rick Riordan
I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.
~ Bernie Sanders
I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.
~ Maria Bartiromo