Top 1105 Closest Quotes & Sayings

The category I come closest to is 'lumberjack hipster.'

I'm closest to the music when I'm onstage with the band, playing.

Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought, but often manipulated artificially by political practitioners so as to obscure, expand, or distort ... a certain broad consistency in its relations to other kindred terms is the nearest approach to definition which such a term as Imperialism admits. Nationalism, internationalism, colonialism, its three closest congeners, are equally elusive, equally shifty, and the changeful overlapping of all four demands the closest vigilance.

The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion.

The closest to Hepburn is Cate Blanchett.

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just got to remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.

My closest friends are from my high school days.

Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

The best accessories a girl can have are her closest friends.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.

Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

All my closest friends are gay. All of them.

We are closest to people when we help them grow.

Companies that are closest to the customers are the ones who are going to lead the industry.

The Internet has introduced me to some of my closest friends.

Eugene Levy is my closest friend.

Tests are special, the format closest to my heart.

The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.

Ukraine is the closest country to us. We have always said that Ukraine is our sister country and it is true. It is not just a Slavic people, it is the closest people to Russia: we have similar languages, culture, common history, religion etc.

For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

Alleviating suffering of the most marginalized communities must begin with assessing the needs of entire communities and allowing the most marginalized to lead the strategy. My belief is those closest to the pain are closest to the solution.

I'm happy. I've had a great career. I adore my family. My closest friends from decades ago remain my closest friends.

I still come closest to success with drawing.

The closest thing I have to a manager is probably my mum.

And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.

Leader’s potential is determined by those closest to him.

The people who can do you the most damage are the ones who are closest to you.

If anybody can harm you, it's going to be the people who are closest.

You are the average of your five closest associates.

It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

A break up is the closest thing to bereavement

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.

Pete Buttigieg is one of my closest friends as a mayor.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.

A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.

I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

Brook isn't just my brother, he's one of my closest friends. That won't change.

Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth.

When I grew up here, there was no T-Hub. Probably, the closest to T was the Tank bund.

The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement.

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.

My brother has been, and will always be, my closest friend.

As I have always said, those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.

Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion

Clothing is the closest thing to all humans.

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.