Closer to a fight, I can really feel my heartbeat in my chest. I can hear it beat through my mouth, this ‘gunk, gunk, gunk’ rhythm.
The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.
You can’t get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
I interviewed more than 100 women about their sisters, but if they also had brothers, I asked them to compare. Most said they talked to their sisters more often, at greater length and, yes, about more personal topics. This often meant that they felt closer to their sisters, but not always.
There’s an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual’s status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better.
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.
We do not know the precise time of the Second Coming of the Savior, but we do know that we are living in the latter days and are closer to the Second Coming than when the Savior lived his mortal life in the meridian of time.
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
But I don’t write a full capsule review of anything I haven’t heard five times. It’s usually closer to ten.
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at.
Not many shows bring fans and artists together, and ‘Rock Dinner’ is one of the few shows that does it. Every opportunity I get to get closer to one of my fans – and get to know them and talk to them – I’m always going to take that opportunity with arms wide open and make it a priority.
Collaboration between different parts of the world will bring us closer. From a business point of view, it opens up new markets as well.
It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
I put a lot of work into my mixtapes, and I want everybody to understand I am doing this genuinely. I don’t even want to be paid for this; I just want you all to hear my music and appreciate it. I think it brings me closer to my fans because they know I’m doing this for them and not just to get the bucks.
The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion.
For anyone who right now is hurting, for anyone who feels beneath a baseline, feels so isolated and lonely, know that you are not alone. First and foremost, you have a God that is going to sit closer than a brother.
I don’t think I’ve ever really been a science fiction writer. I’m closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can.
It’s very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that’s so much harder.
The closer a brand can cozy up to a consumer with a message along the lines of, ‘We’re all in this together,’ the better off a brand will be.
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now – guys riding buses, there’s no training staff, and there’s a lot of paranoia.
When I turned 30, six years ago, I decided to run the London Marathon and I did not even really train. I thought that it was not even that difficult. I completed it in 5hr 15min, I could have got closer to 4hr 30min if I had trained properly.
It’s a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.
Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.
Where there’s water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it’s bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.
A lot of the off-ice is actually spent sort of as a recovery process. Because the closer we get to a competition, the more and more you do on-ice. So if you’re already on the ice three to four hours, you get enough cardio doing your run-throughs. But I sometimes do the elliptical or bike.
I love doing stunts. I’m dedicated to stunts, in fact. I really find that that brings me even closer to a physical truth about my character that I enjoy being a part of. I love doing that stuff.
I was born in Karachi, where my father used to work in the sales department of a pharmaceutical company. The nature of his job required him to travel, so we moved to Athens, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and Riyadh and then went to Manchester during the Gulf War, moving back to Lahore closer to my father’s retirement.
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don’t get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
I want to know what dark matter and dark energy are comprised of. They remain a mystery, a complete mystery. No one is any closer to solving the problem than when these two things were discovered.
Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
Looking back on the production of ‘Nevermind,’ I’m embarrassed by it now. It’s closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.
You can’t get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.
But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent – because everyday fears – like not being approved of – pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
As I move forward and closer to God I think he’s got something for me and I can feel it in my heart, as I keep making steps walking closer to God, I feel it more and more.
For me, bringing the American president closer to the people of Israel is a life goal.
My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.
You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That’s when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That’s what ‘Time Is Love’ is all about.
Looking out at the ocean, it’s easy to feel small – and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth’s seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
There’s never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every ‘I can’t’ with ‘How can I?’ It might sound like semantics, but I promise it will bring whatever you want to accomplish much closer to becoming a reality.
We approach closer and closer to socialism.
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can’t come in closer with the 35 mm.
When you get a hankering to talk or complain about what you gave up for Lent, replace that hankering by speaking the word of God. For all the times you would have done the activity that you gave up for Lent, replace it by reading the word of God. Christians should always be drawing closer to God.
We’re closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.
When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.
I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.
Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer it will be to a Middle East policy worthy of our country and its long alliance with our ally in Jerusalem – which is, actually, the capital of the state of Israel.
I have got closer to some of the guys through Twitter. I don’t need to name names but I have found I have more of a connection with some players than I did before – not to say that I wasn’t friends with them anyway but just that I’m better friends with them now.
Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer – I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.
I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.
