#closer

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. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#age #approach #aware #childhood #children

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#another #attack #better #better job #certainly

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point. ↗

— Al Gore

#change #closer #critical #critical mass #day

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

#closer #come #death #more #negative

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#already #away #borders #closer #conquest

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table. ↗

— Janet Flanner

#built #closer #come #crowds #dinner

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist. ↗

— E. Franklin Frazier

#ballot box #box #closer #got #like

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#closer #despair #dying #feeling #felt

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people. ↗

— William Hurt

#bring #closer #help #i #i think

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from. ↗

— Floyd Patterson

#closer #fight #fighter #future #his