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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Keywords: after :: comes :: expressing :: inexpressible :: is :: music :: nearest :: silence :: that :: the :: to :: whichSubject: Music QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Of all the things I`ve done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It`s the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.
Laurence Olivier
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[on acting] It sounds pompous but it`s the nearest thing I can do to being God. I`m trying to create human beings and so does He.
Rod Steiger
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My scream was a product of pure imagination. I had to imagine what was happening to me, and I imagined that the nearest help was far away. When I first saw the picture I thought the screams were overdone. But they were an important part of the picture and...
Fay Wray
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To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
Mary Stuart
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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
Alan Barton
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The level of compensation hasn`t been changed since 1984. Of the 15 nearest cities, our mayor and council are paid the least. That is a gross injustice.
Anthony Schlegel
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The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can`t help it - can`t help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
Marguerite Duras
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On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.
Alisha Valenzuela
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It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.
Allard Baird
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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.
Peter Steele
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In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
William McKinley
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If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
George Bancroft
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I don`t think radio is selling records like they used to. They`d hawk the song and hawk the artist and you`d get so excited, you`d stop your car and go into the nearest record store.
Herb Alpert
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I didn`t have a lot to do. Dad felt I was too young to go to college; I didn`t have a job, and the nearest town was some 20 miles away. I needed a way of entertaining myself. Writing was what I settled on.
Christopher Paolini
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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
Alberto Adrianzen
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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless
Arlene Skipper
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One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that`s all over with, you`ll ...
Barbara Hall
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For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
Joseph Conrad
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Aaron Lynn
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Keywords: after :: comes :: expressing :: inexpressible :: is :: music :: nearest :: silence :: that :: the :: to :: whichSubject: Music QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
Socrates
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