Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Don't close off the possibility of new truth because you've been comfortable with an old one. Life be-gins at the end of your comfort zone.
Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.
I know Malcolm [Subban] and myself, we're a little bit older now, but we don't know everything. To get to where we have so far has been a great accomplishment but we're not even close to being satisfied. To be able to keep on getting better, progressing, and having success, you need help. What better place to get it than from your parents?
My mom and I are very close.
I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project, they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing.
Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit. . . . They have to fit in context.
It is possible to take energy from someone else. This is usually done in close, emotional sexual relationships.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
It's so important to reach out to people you trust, and who can give you honest feedback, and keep those people close to you. You don't want to surround yourself with enablers.
I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that they could close so they could think deep thoughts. This is a terrible idea.
A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.
If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.
I leave my circle tight in keep my family close.
I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.
I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me.
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.
I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.
And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.