If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.
Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.
For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.
I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind. . . . It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I. ' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!
The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep
Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.
Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
Art is the most valued thing in the world. . . it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest to the divine. The power is within - the question is how to reach it.
Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue was about £1. 4bn, 40 per cent more than its nearest rival, Italy's Serie A. That was before take-off. Now foreign television channels are sending so much cash that the Premiership is expected to take in nearly £1. 8bn this season. Even the team that finishes bottom of the table (Wigan might be a good bet) will get £26. 8m from TV. That's more than all of Argentine or Belgian football put together.
It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.
My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.
Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.
It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.
You've got to be able to know someone really well to be able to have a row and then also walk away from it and not have it matter, especially in this business. That doesn't mean to say we have many rows but I think the nearest thing to a row would be just flatly disagreeing with something.
The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.
Do me a favor. . . Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this, but there's an entire planets-worth of summers, friends, sunsets, street lamps, songs, late nights, great films, and night skies waiting for you. Your life is as amazing as you want it to be, but first, you have to let it be that way.