| "Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost." »Kaleel Jamison |
| "A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye." »Samuel Grafton |
| "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 |
| "Never think that God's delays are God's denials. hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius." »George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon |
| "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 |
| "If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them 'hold on'" »Rudyard Kipling |
| "hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly the chances are, it's holding you too." »Bob Alberti |
| "If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example." »Sir Walter Besant |
| "close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be." »Ted Rall |
| "Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success." »Michael Flatley |
| "To find a friend one must close one eye To keep him, two." »Norman Douglas |
| "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 |
| "Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality." »Frank Herbert |
| "Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "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. |
| "We were so close to being one of the actual victems. It makes you feel humble." »Robert Lee Bedker |
| "It's hard to say who gets criticized the most, the successful person, or the failure but it's mighty close." »Joe Moore |
| "The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." »Flora Whittemore |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." »Thomas Alva Edison |
| "Weekends are a bit like rainbows they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them." »John Shirley |
| "At a certain age some people's minds close up they live on their intellectual fat." »Blessing Irish |
| "This is the hardest of all to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy." »Anonymous |
| "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 |
| "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." »George Burns |
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