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

Home, Eyes, Draw

The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm not sure how many people realize how close we are to the collapse of the U.S. financial system.
Rush Limbaugh

Around, Sure, State

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Mason Cooley

Head, Begin, Shades

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
Hesiod

Long, Put, Road

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
Meister Eckhart

God, Cannot, Away

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
Dorothy Day

Love, Fear, Enough

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
Lou Holtz

Successful, Small, Attention

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Emma Goldman

Love, Marriage, After

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

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
Robert Capa

Good, Enough, Pictures

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

Reality, Intuition, Perception

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
Steven Spielberg

Try, Soul, Bound

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.
Sidney Sheldon

Sleep, End, Book

Do we need distance to get close?
Sarah Jessica Parker

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
David Herbert Lawrence

Stupid, Moving, Themselves

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.
Donald Rumsfeld

Truth, Bad, Him

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Life, Beautiful, Tired

Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
Marilyn vos Savant

Struggle, Eyes, Hear

My mom and I are very close.
Lady Gaga

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.
Elayne Boosler

Men, Alone, Someone

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.
Jerry Saltz

Life, Art, Important

Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.
Ann Romney

Heart, Lives, Research

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.
Leonard Cohen

Life, Sadness, Down

The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.
Jose Mourinho

Strong, Team, Chance

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
Gustave Flaubert

Art, Yourself, Nothing

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
Wangari Maathai

Pain, Lose, Choice

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
Neil Young

Same, Start, Again

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton

Hard, Down, Soul

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
Martin Scorsese

Money, Power, Fight

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.
Marlon Brando

Women, End, Long

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