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I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
Jacqueline Bisset

Reality, Public, Image

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

Today, America, Poverty

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

Children, Sympathies

One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.
James Lovelock

Time, Hope, Truth

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.
Lucy Powell

Home, Government, Away

The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.
David Mitchell

Art, Book, Illness

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
Karl Jaspers

Life, Time, Past

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
Nikolai Gogol

Words, Others, Dearer

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

Cool, Heart, Fanatic

This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.
Jasper Johns

Time, Strong, Long

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

Nothing, Earth, Heaven

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

State, Grace, Illness

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

Change, Nature, Society

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Elihu Root

Nature, Human, Control

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

Great, Others, Except

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!
Eleonora Duse

Live, Humanity, Sea

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.
Gwen John

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

Impact, Lines, Heaviest

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
Edmond Halley

May, Gods, Approach

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.
Stephen Sprouse

Until, Lived, Town

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.
Mary Antin

Life, Education, Means

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
Thomas Lynch

History, Poetry, Language

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

Home, Today, Thought

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.
Eliza Haywood

Nature, Great, Quality

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.
Christopher Gist

Family, Wife, Old

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