Top 270 Closely Quotes

We have ambitious goals for the future, and I know we will achieve them, in part, by working closely with our exceptional extended team.
Dennis Muilenburg
In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.
Robert Mueller
Turkey is not an enemy of Israel. I have worked closely with the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Ehud Olmert
We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn’t bringing prosperity or social justice to all.
Claudio Hummes
As far as the political landscape in our state, I think that what we continue to see is that Tennessean voters are more independent and more conservative, and they are watching issues very closely; they are watching votes very closely.
Marsha Blackburn
If you look closely, you’ll see that Marvel basically has three Thanoses. There is the 1970s Thanos appearing in the movies. This is before he got the Infinity Gauntlet. Then there are the Thanos stories I’m telling. And finally, there is the Thanos that appears in the mainstream Marvel stories.
Jim Starlin
At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.
Margaret Mahy
Early traction of Tesla is tracking very closely to Apple.
Chamath Palihapitiya
I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.
Narendra Modi
It was deeply interesting to observe my mother closely and to draw her. During those last months, she wasn’t speaking much, if at all, and it was a way for me to be with her. It felt very natural.
Roz Chast
I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas’s designs and were real proud of what we did. It’s a sad situation now.
Ben Crenshaw
I follow politics very closely. I read several newspapers every day.
Fernando Botero
I love watching foreign films on my projector at home along with my closely knit group of friends and family. I also love to dissect movies and discuss them with my friends who are movie buffs.
Terence Lewis
I have to tip my hat to those who have worked closely with me from the start. All these people have backed me up when it was more difficult, urging me on, so thanks to them.
Joachim Low
The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.
Larry J. Sabato
I look forward to working closely with the CDK Board, management team, and employees to enable CDK to meet its full potential to generate value for all of its stakeholders.
Brian Krzanich
The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
Buffalo Bill
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask o

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn’t, it is of no use.
Carlos Castaneda
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
Rebecca Harding Davis
Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.
Peter R. Grant
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Luc de Clapiers
We need to coordinate closely with international partners, right down to tightly-coordinated execution of seizures, searches, and arrests, so that instead of capturing a single criminal, we’re taking down an entire enterprise.
Christopher A. Wray
I would like to do one of Ilaiyaraaja’s songs. After all, I did play drums for him and have watched him closely while composing, recording and performing. I would like to do an album of Mohammed Rafi’s Hindi songs, too.
Y. G. Mahendran
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
John McCarthy
I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods – none of that is made up.
Rick Riordan
Asked at the hearing why she hadn’t pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn’t know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn’t her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.
Howard Fineman
We read that Adam and Methuselah lived so many centuries; at that time, it was the custom to marry in the family – marry as closely as possible – so that the tie of blood might be as strong as it could be made.
Max Heindel
Immersing myself in Shakespeare’s plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant, plain-spoken professor changed my life: It opened up the great questions; it put my petty problems into perspective. It got me out of bed in the mornings and kept me in the library late into the night.
Jhumpa Lahiri
I don’t look so closely at women’s fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.
Tadao Ando
I have studied many politicians closely.
Sayaji Shinde
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David Thoreau
I want Britain to stay closely aligned to the E.U. on tariff rates, recognition of health and environment standards and the levels of border checks, because it is in Britain’s interest to do so.
Damian Green
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
Boris Spassky
I tell people to listen really closely to the song when they’re working out their guitar parts.
Mike Campbell
I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.
Anne Grant
Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens.
Barton Gellman
I was convinced that the trading frequency measured a fundamental heartbeat of financial markets. Clearly it reflected the flow of information. It turns out also to be closely related to measures of liquidity.
Robert F. Engle
In the legislative arena, especially when the country is closely divided, compromises tend to be the rule the day. But when judges rule this or that policy unconstitutional, there’s little room for compromise: One side must win, the other must lose.
Neil Gorsuch
American foreign policy in the George W. Bush era was made by a president closely affiliated with evangelical Christianity. The thrust of his agenda was that the United States should work to democratize the Middle East.
Mollie Hemingway
I suspect that a huge amount of the anxiety and suffering that we see around can be closely traced to our wanton misuse of our resources. Just look at any garbage dump and see what is wasted. In a sense, we’ve wasted our souls.
Jay Parini
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
Anne Tyler
What gets you out of bed in the morning? This is a question I’m often asked as a politician. It tends to be closely followed by a dozen other questions about what I’ll do in ‘x’ scenario or whether I’ll resign if ‘y’ happens.
Andrea Leadsom
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.
Georgia O’Keeffe
To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.
Leon Max
Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.
James Jeans
On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
Sylvia Earle
However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.
Alex Campbell
If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.
Kit Williams
Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the

Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her.
Maripol
The first suit I enjoyed was a Dior suit that I got given. I’ve never worn anything that fitted that closely – it was akin to ‘Oh my God, I had no idea that a suit didn’t have to be this wide.’ But I do intend to get one made some day.
Jamie Cullum
On ‘The Avengers,’ I’ve been working closely with Mark Ruffalo.
Andy Serkis
This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
Aristide Briand
Pregnancies spaced too closely together lead to increased rates of infant mortality.
Ralph Northam
When someone gets closely related to a character they play on TV, it’s very hard to break that mold and go on to do something else.
Katherine Moennig