The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George Washington

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde

The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.
Zebulon Pike

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Stephen Hawking

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
Natalie Clifford Barney

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.
Joseph Haydn

These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information.
Charles Sturt

This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map.
Francis Crick

Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.
Edith Stein

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
John Hawkes

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
Al Oerter

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
Origen

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Pierre Charles Baudelaire

Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.
William Bartram

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
Humphrey Gilbert

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Novalis

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.
Robert Falcon Scott

We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
Hal Lindsey

We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.
Jim Fowler