Nearest Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

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