Near Quotes

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.

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.

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

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.

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell.

Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.