The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
Talcott Parsons

The country life near Manchester I really love.
Ruud van Nistelrooy

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
Orville Wright

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.
Meriwether Lewis

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
Abraham Cahan

The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable.
Stan Jones

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
Simon Wiesenthal

The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.
Bo Gritz

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
Confucius

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
Dan Quayle

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Edward Dahlberg

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Willa Cather

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
Georg Trakl

The other guys drink, but they don't drink anywhere near what I used to. And I think they're slightly respectful of the fact that I'm off it, so it's not a problem.
Graham Coxon

The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.
John H. Reagan

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.
Erno Rubik

The stage is near and dear to me.
Bela Lugosi

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
Lajos Kossuth