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21 " You need your Anger to fuel youYou need your Rage to control youand you need your Heart to constrain youOnce you have achieved that, you will be the closest thing to an Immortal Invincible being, that has Ever walked upon this earth. "
22 " A wiry crewman named Kobis sat at the end of a couch, reading a book in the low light, clearly relishing the closest thing he ever found to peace and quiet "
― V.E. Schwab
23 " I've had enough adventures," said Noxon, " to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Boredom means that there's nothing wrong. You're not hungry, you're not in pain. Nobody's making any demands on you. Your mind is free to think whatever you want. The only thing that makes boredom unpleasant is if you're impatient for something else to happen. "
24 " She wasn’t just a faithful friend, she was the closest thing to heaven I allowed myself to know. Through her I received joy in my heart and began to love others. "
― Jennifer Skiff , The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend
25 " But whatever happens, I've been happy. I've been loved. I've amazed crowds and drunk in their applause. Not because of luck or favor or magic. Because of will. My will. I've been willing to do whatever it takes. That's the closest thing I have to a secret. And now it's yours." It's a lot to think about, and he can't quite digest it. But there's a spark there. Maybe she's right about him. Maybe it is up to him, how much he lets the bullet, and the fear, take over his life. Maybe. Not a curse, but a choice. His agency and no one else's. "
26 " I like you, Dawn. I've seen a lot of humans, from far away and up close. I've never met one like you. I think you're the closest thing to a sunrise I'll ever see. "
― J.A. London , Darkness Before Dawn (Darkness Before Dawn #1)
27 " It may be crazy, but I'm the closest thing I have to a voice of reason. "
― Gil Scott-Heron
28 " A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king. "
― Criss Jami , Killosophy
29 " What I like about the job of being a novelist, and at the same time what I find so exhausting about it, is that it's the closest thing to being God you're ever going to get. All the decisions are yours. You decide when the sun comes up. You decide who gets to fall in love and who gets hit by a car. You have to make all the trees and all the leaves and then sew the leaves onto the trees. You make the entire world. "
― Ann Patchett , The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
30 " Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square. "
― Gloria Steinem , My Life on the Road
31 " I believe that water is the closest thing to a god we have here on Earth. We are in awe of its power and majestic beauty. We are drawn to it as if it’s a magical, healing force. We gestate in water, are made of water, and need to drink water to live. We are living in water. "
― Alex Z. Moores , Living in Water
32 " The sun beasts the shit out of a dirty road called Raton Pass where the closest thing to a pair of matching earring is a guy named Carl who punches you in the head with his fist. "
― Amelia Gray , Gutshot
33 " I felt a hand on my back, movement behind me, my guys making room, someone squeezing into our circle, and then one last hand joined the pile: my Korean aide. I guess it made sense. We were her real family. The closest thing she’d ever had to a real family, at least. All year she said maybe five words a day. 'Now kick some ass,' she said. "
― Tucker Elliot , The Day Before 9/11
34 " The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world." " And yet with a bigger library we could come ever so much closer. "
35 " Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union. "
― Tom Clancy , The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Jack Ryan, #4)
36 " ...love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--answer to death is loving. Loving. "
― , Shadowfires
37 " Creating is the closest thing to being immortal. "
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
38 " Let me paraphrase what Paul is saying here: Jesus married the Church - Christians, you and me, us. The Church is His literal bride. He laid His life down for the Church. And Paul writes that husbands should love their wives in the same way that Jesus loved The Church, and vice-versa. What a daunting task.But what is made clear in this passage is that marriage was designed to display the love that Jesus has for the Church, His bride. It’s the closest thing we can get to tasting the kind of love that He has for us - a sacrificing love, a serving love, a selfless love. Do you see what this means? Marriage isn’t really about us. It’s not. It’s about God. It’s about the Gospel. "
39 " ...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church. "
― Jim C. Hines , Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris, #1)
40 " Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. "
― Karl Barth