Near Quotes

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

Ryan Leaf is doing great now. If he progresses the way he is now, we're going to have a quarterback that's going to be reckoned with in the near future. And that's not political.

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream... and I set up all these candles on the bridge. But when I called her and told her she said it was too dark and she wasn't coming out.

If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

I have started to record some demos so hopefully in the near future I can play live.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Any time you're near a kangaroo, it's a close call.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.

I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.