#closer

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places. ↗

— John McGahern

#actually #australia #believed #canada #closer

You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God. ↗

— John C. McGinley

#child #closer #disorienting #doing #get

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#call #closer #commitment #concentration #emotion

I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#closer #developing #efforts #i #i can

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#being #closer #different #ending #endless

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#church #closer #depressions #funerals #may

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too. ↗

— Ram Dass

#closer #found #god #guru #him

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them. ↗

— Shaun White

#before #beginning #closer #dad #even

I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#being #being happy #cameras #closer #doing

It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#closer #collective #difficult #difficult times #easy