Nearer Quotes

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

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.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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.

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

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.