Closely Quotes

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David Thoreau

History, Tree, Connected

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good, United, Seems

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life, Business, Follow

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Aversion, Regard, Bordering

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Greatest, Pleasures, Follows

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
Matthew Fox

Beauty, Together, Learn

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
Dave Barry

Sports, Problem, Place

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
Ellen G. White

Great, True, Before

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
Francis Ford Coppola

Movies, Film, Magic

No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Stephen King

Good, Busy, Story

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Themselves, Concerned, Paint

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.
Deepak Chopra

Human, Brain, Find

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
Carlos Castaneda

Good, Heart, Path

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Marquis de Sade

Character, Person, Others

I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.
Anderson Cooper

Good, Everyone, Able

I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
Jeff Bridges

America, Working, Team

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
Novalis

Invisible, Connected, Visible

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.
William Shatner

Life, Whole, Tree

Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Mind, Forget

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.
Stephen Fry

Trying, Again, Far

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Another, Less, Name

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
Sally Ride

Good, Job, Important

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Friedrich Schiller

Work, Mind, Creative

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Luc de Clapiers

Sometimes, Another, Virtue

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Famous, Book, Words

The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
Buffalo Bill

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
Henry Louis Gates

Him, Everyone, American

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery.
Henry Louis Gates

Great, Important, Him

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.
Ani DiFranco

Family, Mom, Parents

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.
Lena Dunham

Life, Hope, Play

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