#closer

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#age #approach #aware #childhood #children

We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#another #attack #better #better job #certainly

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God. ↗

— Andy Griffith

#baptized #christian #christian life #closer #even

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#assured #closer #desire #end #experience

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#books #bring #chess #closer #game

I am trying to get closer to God. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#closer #get #god #i #i am

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

On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#because #biographies #closer #conduct #conductors

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