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Quotes About Near

Tolkien said that you shouldn't leave a dragon out of your calculations if you live near him.
~ Elizabeth Joy Arnold
Iknow an old couple who live near Hell.
~ Gene Wolfe
Thought pure and simple is as near to God as we can get; it is through this that we are linked with God.
~ Samuel Butler
I can answer spring at last, Love is near me!
~ Sara Teasdale
Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime!
~ Rupert Brooke
O Merlin, said Arthur, Here hadst thou been slain for all thy crafts had I not been. Nay, said Merlin, Not so, for I could save myself an I would; and thou art more near thy death than I am, for thou goest to the deathward, an God be not thy friend.
~ Sir Thomas Malory
You had a near life experience.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
If we desire that there be no boasting except in the cross, then we must live near the cross-indeed we must live on the cross.
~ John Piper
Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
~ John Price
In the sleepless dark, all things are possible, the worst most likely, all darkness visible. There he lay, as near as comfort, as far as the other side of death, silent and far away in sleep.
~ Ellen Kushner
Even though the story takes place in the past, it feels very much like the present or the near future. It feels like something incipient, imminent, pervasive. Like a fog so cold it's a thousand needles in your skin, just barely breaking the surface.
~ Barry Lyga
She said impatiently. 'It is of no use for us to argue on that head. Where is Bertram?' 'Don't think you'd know the place, ma'am. It's – it's near Westminster!
~ Georgette Heyer
little white house near the foot of the lighthouse with a little path between. The two buildings stood on a rocky point of land, almost in the water.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
A frontier is a division between countries. A history of a country is not a history of the changing of frontiers although many think so particularly those near the frontier the history of a country is why they like things which they have and which they do not exchange for other things for which they do not care.
~ Gertrude Stein
It was very painful to be so close to a World Cup final.
~ Gareth Southgate
The most effective way to resist evil is to draw near Me.
~ Sarah Young
Ravelle, anyone in command feigns ease when death is near. We do it for those around us, and we do it for ourselves. We do it because the sole alternative is to die cringing.
~ Scott Lynch
anyone in command feigns ease when death is near. We do it for those around us, and we do it for ourselves. We do it because the sole alternative is to die cringing.
~ Scott Lynch
You are so... 11:59
~ Scott Westerfeld
And he [Jesus] came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. (Eph. 2:17–18)
~ Scotty Smith
If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.
~ Laura Nyro
Caminaba yo por el sendero muy descorazonado, cuando me sentí penetrado de una sensación reconfortante, alegre y cosquilleante, igual que un burbujeo, y tan alegre, que no es posible explicarlo con palabras, porque comprendí por esa señal que Satanás estaba cerca. Ya
~ Mark Twain
Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she'd take a job that was more nearer her size.
~ Mark Twain
When water is near and a weight is missing, it is not a very far-fetched supposition that something has been sunk in the water.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle