It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.
They're a redefinition of boredom. . . the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.
Do me a favor. . . Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this, but there's an entire planets-worth of summers, friends, sunsets, street lamps, songs, late nights, great films, and night skies waiting for you. Your life is as amazing as you want it to be, but first, you have to let it be that way.
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.
The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.
I put myself in the studio and I really made sure to say, 'Well, if I would normally reach for a trumpet, why don't I reach for the next nearest instrument instead?'
Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere.
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.
The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent. Would you prefer me to read from Daphne's Three Tender Months with Harold or Cindy and John's House of Everlasting Love? I guarantee, your sanity and your indie street cred won't last a chapter. And they are very, very short chapters. " Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.
It's odd how a person always arouses admiration for his moral qualities among the relatives of another with whom he has sexual relations. Physical love, so unjustifiably decried, makes everyone show, down to the least detail, all he has of goodness and self-sacrifice, so that he shines even in the eyes of those nearest to him.
In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body's energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body's weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense.
I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
One of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said "Okay, I'm gonna tell you what to do. If the kid's bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock.
Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.