#near

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #near




If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.


Lawrence Hargrave


#angles #apparently #attention #bird #course

When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.


Woody Harrelson


#being #did #ended #environment #few

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.


Howard Hodgkin


#art world #been #coherent #kind #minute

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.


Chris Van Hollen


#america #beacon #better #better life #children

We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.


Moe Howard


#violent #westerns

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.


William Hull


#alone #approach #asked #attend #bible

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.


David Searls


#journey #near-death #death

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.


Norman Mailer


#assisting #certain #come #could #devil

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.


Jon Meacham


#belongs #boldly #building #engage #fact

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.


Michelle Williams


#circles #connect #i #i think #life