Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear,
by which I mean pajamas.
Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.
Suicide is a terrible idea, but if you're going to end it, do so at a Pinkberry near you.
The end of 'The End' is the best place to begin 'The End', because if you read 'The End' from the beginning of the beginning of 'The End' to the end of the end of 'The End', you will arrive at the end.
When the rate of change outside is more than what is inside, be sure that the end is near.
It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight, and no distance: everything is getting near and everything near is turning to stone.
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.
I know it's near the end and when it's over I want to be able to say to myself - not anyone else - that I've given it everything. At least in the last part of my career.
Both the Eurozone and European Union is like the end of the Roman Empire. It's already started. In a few years' time it will not be there anymore. Don't ask me if it will be two years or ten years but the end is near. Like the Roman Empire, it's gone.
By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?
Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.
Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.
If buying equities seem the most hazardous and foolish thing you could possibly do, then you are near the bottom that will end the bear market.
Near the end of high school, I was always super shy, backward.
Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.
You are just a murdered. (Near) (btw this was an epic win on near's part when light spazzed out and went crazy)
There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.
And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.
The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
Eternity is really long, especially near the end.
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.
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.
I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’
The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.
I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
The very energy sources that have gotten us to where we are now are also, if we continue doing what we're doing, a shortcut to the end of all that we hold near and dear.
We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.
The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.
The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.
Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
Usually I'm nowhere near the playoffs. My last game of the year is usually at the end of the regular season in April.
On the night of June 30, 1990, a minibus in which I was travelling was involved in a head-on collision on a road near Latina, in the region of Lazio, near Rome.
We shall then have joy without sorrow, and rest without weariness...Be of good cheer, Christian, the time is near, when God and thou shalt be near, and as near as thou canst well desire. Thou shalt dwell in his family.
Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that's out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.
A rabbi told me that when you have two problems - one near, one not so near - concentrate on the immediate one.
But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.
Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.
Near a war is always not very near.
Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a near miss. Bullshit, my friend. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss. [WHAM! CRUNCH!] "Look, they nearly missed!" "Yes, but not quite.
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.
There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.'
I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.
But why?" "You heard the pay, right? And also, to be near you." Thumbing a tear from my cheek, he added, "Mostly, to be near you.
Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me...I want to be a friend.
Shall I make it clear, boys, for all to apprehend, Those that will not hear, boys, waiting for the end, Knowing it is near, boys, trying to pretend, Sitting in cold fear, boys, waiting for the end?
I feel less pressure to dress for the eyes of other people now. I think that happened once I started modelling, near the end of high school.
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.
Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the nearer thou comest to the end of thy days, the nearer thou mayest be to the end of thy hopes, the salvation of thy soul.
And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man.
Some say "The end is near," as if that is shocking news. The truth is, the end is always near. What is actually shocking is that we, ourselves, can help to choose which end.
When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.
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.
We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
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