#near

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#also #atmosphere #both #close #dreams

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#also #around #coast #cohesion #down

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#been #down #downtown #following #four

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#better #brute #celestial #civil #creatures

I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside. ↗

— Ken Dodd

#i #inland #lived #near #owe

Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#car #either #how #know #nearby

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#death #drink #especially #ex-wife #had

I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#counselor #east #i #i am #institute

Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#dream #near-death-experience #death

Sam: "I always thought you were the most beautiful of all the Nephilim." Meg: "That's ironic because I always thought you were the ugliest of all the angels. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#unearthly #beauty