#near

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#behavioral #biological #children #dads #did

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#creates #dearest #happiness #help #her

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. ↗

— Will Durant

#dictatorship #liberty #license #near

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#darkness #finds #light #nearest #sorrow

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#ended #first #five #francisco #holiday

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. ↗

— George Eliot

#captivated #case #common #enough #his

Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#anywhere #comic #crack #go #had

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music. ↗

— Brian Eno

#certain #context #define #edges #found

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#advances #aesthetic #coming #innovation #nearly

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? ↗

— Jules Verne

#after #circle #distance #earth #future