Top 270 Closely Quotes

I think there’s a need for more oversight by social workers, because there are a lot of foster parents who are just collecting checks. They need to look closely into the backgrounds of the people whose hands you’re putting the kids into and then continue to monitor them.
Michael Oher
Simply stated, our bodies and mind are closely connected, and that which affects our state of mind will invariably affect the way in which our bodies function.
Margaret Cuomo
If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.
Eisaku Sato
The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.
Wole Soyinka
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
Elias Canetti
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
When I looked very closely to the Bible and to Jesus, this Christ who came, I discovered something awesome. I discovered that when He’s first, then He places me in a second position that’s above the class that I was given by other men.
Tony Evans
I realized women and humor were linked very closely.
Craig Ferguson
We are monitoring very closely threats against the pope as he comes in to the United States.
Michael McCaul
And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube.
Erno Rubik
I had attached my life to basketball so closely that it made me physically ill.
Jaylen Brown
The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.
Michael Polanyi
When you live closely with people, you don’t see who they really are. In particular, with nannies, they only exist in your home, and when they leave, they don’t really exist anymore for you.
Leila Slimani
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
Henry Louis Gates
And so it’s inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don’t examine closely the things they believe.
Todd Rundgren
I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.
Jamie Bamber