If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude Stein

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
Abbe Pierre

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Herbert Hoover

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
Jessamyn West

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
Gilbert Parker

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
Elbert Hubbard

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
Edmund Halley

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George Orwell

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.
Christopher Dawson

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Augustus Hare

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
David Hare

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.
Wilfred Burchett

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
Jackson Pollock

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.
Phoebe Cary

Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.
James Longstreet

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Sigmund Freud