Close Quotes

The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous

Being angry is as close as a human being
can come to experiencing hell on earth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

Keep close to Nature's heart...
and break clear away, once in awhile,
and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.
- John Muir

I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
- Flora Whittemore

Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen

You can close more business in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

Don't let your ego get too close to your position,
so that if your position gets shot down,
your ego doesn't go with it.
- Colin Powell

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show
the world that when one has the will one can succeed
in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
- Francois Mitterrand

Get up-close-and-personal:
Life looks different when you really get involved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Move to your heart, Breathe.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply - slowly -
fill your lungs with love and gratitude -
exhale each and every trouble -
again and again - gratitude in, troubles out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters -
I'm from an all female family.
My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
- Shirley Manson

In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu

When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being
close to St James Park which is also good for me because
it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!
- David Blunkett

Manage the remarkable balance between acting
from your heart and close to your gifts
with completing the obligations
that your labor and tasks require of you.
Leverage opportunity AND seize joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys.
It's easier to trust men sometimes.
I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
- Paris Hilton

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight,
otherwise known as political power.
- Maggie Gallagher

ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth
who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
- Ernest Holmes

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth -
something very difficult for a politician.
Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.
- Edward Koch

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others,
but far enough ahead to motivate them.
- John C. Maxwell

Don't seek God in temples.
He is close to you.
He is within you.
Only you should surrender to Him
and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
- Leo Tolstoy

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close
minded than regular people.
- Alex Chiu

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite
of what you are inclined to do,
and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
- Ben Hogan

Love is always open arms.
If you close your arms about love you will find that
you are left holding only yourself.
- Leo Buscaglia

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say.
A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep
to dream my dreams of you.
- Roy Orbison

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.
- John Pople

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown,
in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
- Jackson Browne

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
- Christine Baranski

I'm not even close to those guys, but I don't think
anyone loves the game more than me.
- David Wells

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong -
is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -
then all Americans are in peril.
- Harry S. Truman

I'm still very close friends with his first wife,
Neile, who is now remarried.
- Robert Vaughn

I need family support close because when you go to work,
they are long days and it can get lonely.
- Joe Lando

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
- Fran Drescher

I always have to dream up there against the stars.
If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
- Henry J. Kaiser

For me, the great problem growing up in England was
that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be,
and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.
- John Cleese

China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains
and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have
enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.
- Li Peng

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,'
you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
- Neal Barnard

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.
- David R. Brower

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one
with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
- Syd Barrett

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
- Stanislaw Lec

I've been an important star and lived a full life,
yet I only hve three close friends.
I guess that's all anyone can expect.
- Hedy Lamarr

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot
out the glory of the world,
and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I
know no speck so troublesome as self.
- George Eliot

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days,
which I thought might be close to the record until
you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
- Jerry Only

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel,
in business, and even close at hand...
Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.
- Jacqueline Cochran

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half.
It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
- David Ogden Stiers

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters
hold up better than the new more expensive special
effects is because they were better actually.
- Bob Balaban

I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials.
To be up close to real things like rain and mud;
to have contact with nature.
- Robin Day

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people.
I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
- Francesca Annis

My dream is to live a good life and be loving,
be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
- Ziggy Marley

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely,
fabulous wife Catherine, too.
- Sally Kellerman

I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme.
And she's pretty close to my real character.
Especially the fact that she liked her sword with a lot of accessories.
- Chiaki Kuriyama

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off;
he is always standing close at hand,
and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
- Meister Eckhart

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire
and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
- Richard Bach

It's not easy to part with the trophies.
However, I do need to have some long-term financial
security for those close to me.
- Bjorn Borg

That was very close to getting killed.
Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.
- Alice Cooper

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression,
and those close to the deceased inherit part of the
liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
- Hermann Broch

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too
close to the heels of an error,
lest you get your brains kicked out.
- Francis Bacon

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own
pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully
share the hell of someone close to you.
- Lady Bird Johnson

My mother has never been involved in my professional life.
I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter
basis and not a work-related basis.
- Sheena Easton

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close
to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I
faked it enough to get by.
- Barry Mann

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work
on great projects while staying near my family.
My family's the most important thing to me right now.
- Harry Hamlin

Prediction? The Democrats will win.
I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.
- John Dingell

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
- the movie The Godfather, Part II

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense,
of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.
- Gordon Parks

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached,
is not in my nature.
I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
- Charles Dickens

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