| "People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out." »Warren Bennis |
| "Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things." »Miyamoto Musashi |
| "Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts." »Georges Rouault |
| "As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." »Jeff Melvoin |
| "We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity." »T. S. Eliot |
| "Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success." »Michael Flatley |
| "Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be." »Ted Rall |
| "Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase." »Lawrence Peter Berra |
| "To find a friend one must close one eye To keep him, two." »Norman Douglas |
| "Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality." »Frank Herbert |
| "Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "We were so close to being one of the actual victems. It makes you feel humble." »Robert Lee Bedker |
| "Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. |
| "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." »Thomas Alva Edison |
| "It's hard to say who gets criticized the most, the successful person, or the failure but it's mighty close." »Joe Moore |
| "At a certain age some people's minds close up they live on their intellectual fat." »Blessing Irish |
| "The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." »Flora Whittemore |
| "This is the hardest of all to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "When you're going up the stairs and you take a step, kick the other leg up high behind you to keep people from following too close." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy." »Anonymous |
| "If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Weekends are a bit like rainbows they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them." »John Shirley |
| "A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye." »Samuel Grafton |
| "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." »George Burns |
| "It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you." »Lady Bird Johnson |
| "As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit and parking as close to the stadium as possible." »Joe Moore |
| "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." »Ronald Reagan |
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