#closes

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#closest #death #few #few men #live

I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#burn #closes #earlier #early #energy

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#brains #case #clocks #closes #gives

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. ↗

— William Congreve

#confidence #ears #his #integrity #little

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#care #closest #home #love #ones

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. ↗

— Karl Barth

#closest thing #god #grace #laughter #thing

I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see. ↗

— Jack Lemon

#being #best #brother #closest #closest friend

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#begins #classroom #closest #convey #family

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#accepted #against #beings #between #closest

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#discloses #painter #photographer