Nearer Quotes

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

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

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

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.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.

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

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

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.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

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

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!

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.

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

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.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

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