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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
James Dean

Beauty, Nature, Able

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis Bacon

Good, Truth, Dog

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.
Julia Child

Love, Nice, Someone

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig

Person, Two, Friends

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Religion, Art, Spring

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Isaac Asimov

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.
King Hussein I

Work, Future, Islam

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George Eliot

Self, Vision, Leave

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, Great, Live

It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection.
Novak Djokovic

Judge, Parents, Feeling

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
Lady Gaga

Life, Trust, Family

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.
Lauren Bacall

Matter, Healthy, Stay

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
Ziggy Marley

Life, Peace, Good

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Truth, Together, Pretty

Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
Maxwell Maltz

Crisis, Show, Either

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
E. O. Wilson

Wrong, Both, Likely

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Willa Cather

Heart, Dark, Another

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
Anne Lamott

Eyes, Spring, Try

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. Forster

Beauty, Nonsense

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley

Death, Sleep, Revenge

I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?
Shahrukh Khan

Life, Family, Time

Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.
Mario Batali

Evening, Eyes, Try

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
Thomas Huxley

Great, Power, Morning

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
George Burns

Good, Together, Two

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
Neil Armstrong

Place, Here, Earth

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
Anita Baker

Happiness, History, Medical

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
Stendhal

Himself, Found, Terrible

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Douglas MacArthur

God, Career, Him

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.
Dolly Parton

Home, Eyes, Draw

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
Alexis Carrel

Reality, Intuition, Perception

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