Nearer Quotes

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.