Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
Sophocles

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard E. Byrd

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.
Douglas Sirk

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
Aeschylus

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
Simone Weil

Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.
Phyllis Schlafly

Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself.
Helen Wills Moody

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
David R. Ellis

Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed.
Kent McCord

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Fritz Kreisler

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
Wislawa Szymborska

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.
Joan of Arc

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and to-morrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.
Charles Wolfe

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Walter Savage Landor

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
Eric Schmidt

Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.
Huey Long

Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.
Kylie Minogue