#near

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#answer #became #drift #films #go

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life. ↗

— Origen

#dead #end #him #life #means

There is hard hitting, but the hitting is not nearly as hard as it used to be. ↗

— Jim Otto

#hitting #nearly #used

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#country #every #industrialized #nearly #now

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#challenge #date #died #even #fastest

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ↗

— George Orwell

#control #describing #england #family #members

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. ↗

— George Orwell

#difference #hardly #less #makes #more

I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips. ↗

— Amos Oz

#falls #gets #gossips #i #israelis

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#bring #days #each #else #ever

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. ↗

— Francis Thompson

#canst #each #far #flower #immortal