Words matter. These are the best Nearer Quotes from famous people such as Jacqueline Bisset, Elbert Hubbard, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Joseph Smith, Jr., David Mitchell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’d like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.
The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It’s a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o’er and o’er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.
I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.
If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire.
This image of wanting to be an artist – that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that’s what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn’t know how to do it.
I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don’t see things clearly as long as you’re still involved.
As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters – some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home – seem more determined to prevent that happening.
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Genuinely my big thing and the reason I’m in ‘The Miser’ is because I always ask myself one simple question when I’m offered anything: Will it get me nearer to being ‘Doctor Who’ or further away?
Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I’m dead in a ditch.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!
I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
I don’t think kids have a problem with death. It’s us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us – of becoming happy – is not attainable: yet we may not – nay, cannot – give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.
Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality.
Many appreciate in my former work just what I did not want to express, but which was produced by an incapacity to express what I wanted to express – dynamic movement in equilibrium. But a continuous struggle for this statement brought me nearer. This is what I am attempting in ‘Victory Boogie Woogie.’
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes – except that there were no ashes.
One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don’t know it.
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.
Pickett’s lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.
