Nearest Quotes

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!

Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.