#close

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good. ↗

— Bob Greene

#amid #bitter #chance #closely #comfort

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change! ↗

— Thom Gunn

#by the time #certain #change #closet #department

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#close #defense #domestic #economic #energy

Cooking for me is a way to wind down. It's different from cooking on camera, where you have to do everything twice, for a wide shot and a close-up. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#close-up #cooking #different #down #everything

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#always #anybody #between #came #close

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science. ↗

— David Hilbert

#branches #construction #developed #disclosed #does

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn. ↗

— Albert Hofmann

#began #closed #colors #day #enjoy

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest. ↗

— Javan

#closely #great #jest #listen #revealed

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#another #bread #close #earned #free

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#birds #closely #related #similar #species