The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.
We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious. . . . I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
With every enemy, when you get closer you understand much more, or the picture dissolves.
A lot of brands, you can't touch them. When you're dealing with Snoop Dogg, he brings you closer to the brand and it feels like it's a part of you.
The higher the hair, the closer to heaven.
I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist.
Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.
Wake up this morning knowing that the possibility for love is closer.
I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
The sanctuary of peace dwells within. Seek it out and all things will be added to you. We're coming closer and closer to the time when enough of us will have found inner peace to affect our institutions for the better. And as soon as this happens the institutions will in turn, through example, affect for the better those who are still immature.
When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.
I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.
I want to get non-aerosol mace, you just rub it in. "Dude who is attacking me - come a little closer!"
They came up with a table of pictures of all the shapes of UFOs that have ever been recorded -about fifty. . . The study of UFOs may reveal some new forms of energy to us,or at least bring us closer to a solution.
Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.
We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone. . . So, I think that's part of the stigma that people who have diseases suffer. It's almost infectious. . . if somebody is closer to death, they're almost a bad omen and I think that's terrible.
Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?