Top 1200 Near And Far Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that's going to be - as far as competition or as far as health is concerned. Sometimes it's just natural. You just taste it, and you want it so bad that you find other gears.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

Life is too short, Harry. And there's nowhere near enough joy in it. If you find it, grab it. Before it's gone.

No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

For business, government, and education, the lesson is clear: People ought to be relying far more on objective information and far less on interviews. They might even want to think about scaling back or cancelling interviews altogether. They'll save a lot of time - and make better decisions.

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

I don't like to use the word 'legacy' because it sounds a bit like I'm full of myself, but I am trying to see how far I can take myself, how far I can push being the best in the world.

$100 million, while a lot of money, is nowhere near what's going to be needed to respond to COVID-19.

Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too.

Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.

From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also evident that we in the West produce far more and throw away far more than the developing world, almost without thinking

A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.

I'm someone who believes that all political campaigns need to be grassroots-driven. Commercials can only get you so far. Mail can only get you far. You need to have people on the ground talking about you and why they care.

Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!

The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.

In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

A lot of people don't have near the amount of success as I've been blessed to have, and it's all about working hard and hoping that continues.

After reading all of these items, where [Hillary Clinton is] so guilty, [James Comey] let her off the hook. While other lives, including General [David] Petraeus and many others, have been destroyed for doing far, far less. This is a conspiracy against you the American people and we cannot let this happen or continue.

I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.

Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

During COVID, I was still training, working on my fitness and my tennis. I was able to practice and play near where I live in Orlando.

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

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.

I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.

Because He's near, we dont have to be anxious or feel out of control. We have peace that rises above any circumstance!

Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.

If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life.

We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.

There was a magic about pulsars... no other things in the sky had such labels on them. Each one had its own distinct pulsing frequency, so it could be identified by anybody, including other creatures, after a long period of time and far, far away.

As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.

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

My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he's near and dear.

It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.

It's a blessing to be able to use my platform to bring more awareness to the local causes that are near and dear to my heart.

I grew up in Wicklow, near Roundwood. It's a beautiful place on the east coast. That's where I started riding bikes.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

Very often, if a founder is waiting around for someone else to tell him what to do, the company is near death.

I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal.

Some souls think that the Holy Spirit is very far away, far, far, up above. Actually he is, we might say, the divine Person who is most closely present to the creature. He accompanies him everywhere. He penetrates him with himself. He calls him, he protects him. He makes of him his living temple. He defends him. He helps him. He guards him from all his enemies. He is closer to him than his own soul. All the good a soul accomplishes, it carries out under his inspiration, in his light, by his grace and his help.

Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as far as the pricing is concerned if you get the average volatility right. It makes a big difference as far as hedging is concerned.

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.