#closer

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#get #heart #intelligence #national #national security

You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer. ↗

— Sol Wachtler

#around #case #closer #each #fixed

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#choosing #closer #destructive #everything #get

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#closer #debate #emerge #end #engage

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#closer #cloud #clouds #come #get

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing. ↗

— Adam Clymer

#closer #current #doing #i #little

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly. ↗

— Alva Noto

#alone #closer #disturbing #express #expressed

St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is. ↗

— Bud Selig

#louis #milwaukee #minneapolis #than

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that. ↗

— James Spader

#closer #enables #i #important #important thing

The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead ↗

— Tegan Quin

#heartthrob #lights-are-off #sara-quin #sky #tegan-and-sara