Quotes with near-sightedness

Quotes 21 till 40 of 92.

  • Ben Hardy For a while, I didn't want to leave the house. Eventually, I just got sick of being indoors. Now I take steps not to be noticed when I don't want to be. For instance, I live near Westfield shopping centre, so I won't go there at the weekend.
    Ben Hardy
    British actor (1991 - )
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  • Lord George Byron For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Simone Weil For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Brendon Urie From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • John Webster Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, but looking to near, have neither heat not light.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • John Dryden Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Ben Jonson Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that - unless we act boldly and transform our energy system in the very near future - there will be more drought, more floods, more acidification of the oceans, more rising sea levels.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Bhagat Singh I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice. These things can never be hinderance in the way of man, provided he be a man. You will have the practical proof in the near future.
    Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • William Hazlitt I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Adam Sandler I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Ben Stein I'm still not that familiar with it. I'm more familiar with it than most people, but nowhere near as familiar with it as a genuine expert in the subject. I don't pretend to be a scientist. I'm the person who moderates the discussion between and among the scientists.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Barbara Corcoran I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bill Bryson If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Hitopadesa In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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