Closeness Quotes - Page 6

• It was not surprising ....that [my father] should seldom have long seasons of agonizing prayer such as some have experienced, for His closeness to God was not limited to special seasons, but was a continuous and uninterrupted service.

  Paul Bearer

  Prayer, Father, Long

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• The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.

  Kate Stoltzfus

  Missing, Outsiders, Amish

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• It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sweet, Sight, Despair

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• When you make a breakthrough it is a moment of scientific exhilaration because you have been on this search and seem to have found it. But it is also a moment where I at least feel closeness to the creator in the sense of having now perceived something that no human knew before but God knew all along.

  Francis Collins

  Exhilaration, Moments, Found

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• You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Children, Grandparent

  "Permission Slip". Live Chat, www.slate.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.

  Amartya Sen

  Issues, Political, Economic Globalization

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Distance, Science

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• Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

  Alain LeRoy Locke

  Art, Broken, Imagination

  Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title

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• What's required of me in the field is to feel,' Stirton says with emphasis. 'And trying to take that feeling and put it in a form that communicates a particular set of emotions or circumstances - whether that involves depicting masculine pride, or a particular kind of suffering, or love, or closeness - my primary job is to feel and to try to put that feeling into some kind of visual form. My goal is to get to the heart of each story, you know? I’m trying to evolve in my work.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Jobs, Heart, Pride

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• In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.

  Anton Chekhov

  Suicide, Men, Thinking

  Letter to D. V. Grigorovich, February 5, 1888.

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• Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are formed by the circumstances acting upon them since birth. These circumstances include the ambiance created by the other, lesser artists of their own time, who have all done their part in creating the pressure that forces up an exceptional talent. Unjustly, but unavoidably, the very closeness of a great artist to his colleagues and contemporaries leads to their eclipse.

  Germaine Greer

  Spring, Artist, Creating

  Germaine Greer (2001). “The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work”, p.134, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The closeness of the India-Afghanistan relationship is not a new phenomenon. It has existed since time immemorial. And as a close friend, ever since India's Independence, we have done and will continue to do whatever is required to be done to see Afghanistan grow and progress as a close friend.

  Narendra Modi

  Independence, Progress, India

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim, Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.

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• I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up whores entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness.

  Patrick deWitt

  Heart, Night, Thinking

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.37, Granta Books

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• In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.

  Frederick Lenz

  Two, Rama, Problem

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• the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to force a living out of it. Hence he has come to regard economy - a necessary unpleasant quality at best - as the chief of virtues. He has cultivated habits which verge on closeness in dealing with food, and with the expression of feeling, and even - his enemies think - with feeling itself.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Thinking, Expression, Two

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• Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.

  Agnes Repplier

  Reading, Glasses, Vision

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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• The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Business, Organization, Increase

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1993). “Men and Women of the Corporation”, p.52, Basic Books

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• I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Feel Good, Soul

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.

  Susan Cheever

  Mother, Baby, Heartbeat

  Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill

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• Play is a universal language. It gives a sense of joy in being alive. It is one of the healthiest things we have in our culture. When we play, we give a gift of joy to another. Happy and joyous family times are a unifying force. They increase closeness and positive feelings. They increase loyalty to the family team. Everyone relaxes and feels more alive. Love just happens when you're having fun together!

  Louise Hart

  Family, Loyalty, Fun

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• The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is different with every writer.

  Ventseslav Konstantinov

  Spiritual, Feelings, Different

  "From Bach to Kafka, or... about Temptation". Interview with Emil Bassat, Sofia News, May 30, 1984.

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• I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Thinking, Would Be, Way

  "In love and war" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2001.

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• Children need loving attention, closeness and deep affection and also loving touch. Love will make them feel safe.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Deep Affection, Needs

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Faults, Becoming

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• A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Memories, Father

  Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone

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