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A good friend is my nearest relation.
The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.
I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.
The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
Some guys get on the road, the first thing they do is look for the nearest golf course. I look for a gym.
When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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.
I think having a private life that you only share with your nearest and dearest is important. Otherwise, who are you?
The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
Stars are extremely far apart. We cannot imagine any way currently available to get to the nearest one, besides the sun.
The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
Grown-up parties are so dull they make me want to throw a tantrum and hurl red wine on the nearest cream-damask armchair.
If I'm in America... I will track down the nearest Soul Cycle, wherever that is, and I'll just power through on a bike for 45 minutes.
If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
I ran away from my home in Gwalior and bought myself a ticket to Delhi. That was the nearest metro, and the cheapest ticket was for Rs 74.
Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.
They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.
I think it's important that everybody has access to music, and not just people who live in cities or who can afford to drive to the nearest city.
If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.
I think what's very French is the mixture of comedy with intimacy and a kind of reflectiveness. For U.S. audiences, the nearest thing is Woody Allen.
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
True, I do love finding something nice for my nearest and dearest, but there is still a pressure to find the perfect present for every member of the family.
On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.
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.
For many years I had been aware that women were not only most important creations in the universe, but the nearest approach that man could reach to the divine.
I love to go see films, even on my own. I just walk to the nearest cinema. There's nothing better than watching a movie alone; you can just sit there and zone in.
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.
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.
The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to the hearts of American politicians.
I grew up with horses and cattle, running around on dirt hills with this real sense of space. We didn't have neighbours - well, the nearest ones were kilometres away.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
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.
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
The most remote place I've been to was in Greenland. I remember setting out for a solo hike from a small cabin, itself several hours' boat ride from the nearest settlement.
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.