#near

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#develops #discouraged #every #every man #gets

I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#because #cousins #different #different world #ethnically

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#anywhere #could #go #near #people

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#ankles #good-looking #knees #nearly #neat

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#come #improbable #most #nearly #pass

It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#because #becomes #courts #dangers #edward

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. ↗

— David Hume

#alone #avidity #destructive #directly #friends

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#after #comes #expressing #inexpressible #nearest

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

#ago #arab #being #called #hope

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. ↗

— Washington Irving

#become #charm #distance #fades #fairy