#closer

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#assured #closer #desire #end #experience

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#closer #debate #emerge #end #engage

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#closer #cloud #clouds #come #get

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that. ↗

— James Spader

#closer #enables #i #important #important thing

It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats. ↗

— John Hoeven

#boats #closer #combination #cooperation #education

I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death. ↗

— Raj Kapoor

#after #brothers #closer #death #grew

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#books #bring #chess #closer #game

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#although #been #closer #footage #get

There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do. ↗

— Sandy Koufax

#because #bound #closer #common #common goal

I am trying to get closer to God. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#closer #get #god #i #i am