Closer Quotes

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Mind, Nothing

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
Ronald Reagan

Might, Rule, Lived

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce Lee

True, Nothing, Special

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson Mandela

Good, End, Leader

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.
Marilyn Monroe

Father, Different, House

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
Steve Jobs

Best, Technology, Everything

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Elie Wiesel

Faith, God, Anger

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.
Groucho Marx

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Lose, View, Dignity

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.
Clint Eastwood

Nature, Play, Around

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Victor Hugo

Smile, Laughter, Joy

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
William James

Heart, Feeling, Laugh

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
Rick Danko

Time, Bad, Greed

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Augustine of Hippo

Time, Good, Special

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Real, Together, Everyone

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.
Kobe Bryant

Different, Ending, Endless

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.
Rob Corddry

Secret, Bit, Sit

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.
Andy Griffith

Life, God, Mother

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth

Home, Next, Run

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.
Louis Farrakhan

Sad, Real, Revolution

I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.
Tim Tebow

Work, God, Morning

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
Albert Ellis

Good, Real, Getting

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.
Marilyn Manson

Important, Someone, Person

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
David Hockney

Art, Experience, Trying

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

Life, Age, Time

You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
Dale Earnhardt

Mean, Win, Sometimes

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.
Bo Bennett

Life, Moving, Away

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Theodor Adorno

Peace, Eternal, Abstract

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Happiness, Two, Far

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
Clarence Darrow

May, Church, Bring

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