Closest Quotes

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

The things closest to the heart of God are often the most offensive to the Pharisees.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

Life's a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning.

I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head

No man has ever been a perfect ballplayer. Stan Musial, however, is the closest to being perfect in the game today.

It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.

In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show.It's the most level commentary you can find.You have to laugh, because it's all so true.It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.

Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine; it's not for me.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

So I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, 'Nearest the bull goes first.' He went 'Baah' and I went 'Moo'. He said 'You're closest.'

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

John was closest of all to Paul; their relationship was very complex.

Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

Out of the guys, I'm closest to Matthew Perry. He's a great friend. He cracks me up[on the set].

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.

We are closest to people when we help them grow.

I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.

Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.