#nearest

To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody! ↗

— Frances Burney

#dare #dearest #dedicate #dislikes #fears

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#comes #enough #his #insight #limitations

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#car #excited #get #go #hawk

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#death #nearest #parents #store #taking

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? ↗

— Amelia Barr

#know #nearest #our #own

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch. ↗

— George Byron

#any #common #common sense #fact #had

A good friend is my nearest relation. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#good #good friend #nearest #relation

Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#away #bike #clean #clean up #early

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#casualty #come #compliments #course #embarrassing

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me. ↗

— Peter Steele

#fine #i #intimate #just #like