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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Music
Silence
Inexpressible
After
Which
Expressing
Nearest
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington
Life
Success
Day
Small Things
Every Day
Every
Rather
Small
Uncommon
Attention
Remote
Than
Us
Large
Founded
Nearest
Things
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan
Life
Government
Programs
Once
Earth
See
Never
Disappear
Voluntarily
Government Programs
Itself
Bureau
Size
Eternal
Eternal Life
Ever
Nearest
Actually
Thing
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore
Great
Humility
Come
Nearest
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
Amelia Barr
Heart
Own
Our
Know
Nearest
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man
Enough
Insight
Admit
Perfection
Limitations
His
Nearest
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.
Meister Eckhart
Darkness
Light
Sympathy
Finds
Sorrow
Truly
Then
Us
Nearest
We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
Carl Jung
Truth
Psychic
Collective
Resting
Disposition
Think
Society
Relation
Broad
Our
Shall
Bears
Individual
Unconscious
Get
Personal
Same
Psyche
Which
Inherited
Nearest
Conscious
Universal
Basis
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.
William McKinley
Time
Victory
Darkest
Defeat
May
Nearest
In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
Ben Carson
Good
Me
Anger
Matter
Will
Lost
Control
Thinking
Took
Once
Kid
Mad
Totally
Someone
General
Rational
Point
Had
Reached
Make
Stick
Without
Aroused
Rock
Lot
Grabbed
Brick
Boiling
Bash
Nearest
Conscious
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
Society
Our
Possessions
Insatiable
Ourselves
Destructive
Directly
Goods
Perpetual
Friends
Acquiring
Nearest
Universal
A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller
Good
Relation
Friend
Nearest
Good Friend
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
Adelbert von Chamisso
Myself
Me
Together
First
Met
Few
Gaze
Immediately
Crowd
Through
Prosperous
Voyage
Got
Came
Effects
Very
Squeezing
After
Which
Landing
Port
Nearest
Inn
Last
Humblest
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
Morning
Ride
Every
Teens
Later
Airplane
Airport
Out
Ten
Clean
Clean Up
Push
Up
Bike
Miles
Used
Away
Nearest
Saturday
Saturday Morning
Early
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
Alexander John Ellis
Finance
Purposes
Practical
Accurate
Cent
Rounding
Nearest
Sufficiently
Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black.
Apollonius of Tyana
Wealth
Better
Tears
Black
Men
Consider
How
Heap
Nor
Than
Gold
Which
Sand
Taxes
Who
Base
Away
Nearest
Gathered
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.
Bayard Taylor
Seen
Approach
Our
Saxon
Tribes
Ancient
Arab
Athlete
Supply
Race
Apollo
Ethiopia
Sculpture
Ever
Among
Nearest
Symmetry
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
Bob Considine
Work
Day
You
Sometimes
Word
Wish
Arrogant
Presumption
Would
Find
Vanity
Winged
Open
Had
Over
Call
Fits
Wonder
May
Just
Unfolding
Newspaper
Search
Each
Keen
Grave
Nearest
Bring
Need
Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on.
Christopher Atkins
Me
You
Three
Half
Clothes
Crew
Crew Members
Months
Members
Tell
Running
Something
Nobody
Hours
Half Hours
Around
Without
Island
Store
Boat
Your
Nearest
Four
Guarantee
Grown-up parties are so dull they make me want to throw a tantrum and hurl red wine on the nearest cream-damask armchair.
Claudia Winkleman
Me
Wine
Hurl
Throw
Red
Armchair
Red Wine
Parties
Make
Tantrum
Dull
Want
Grown-Up
Nearest
I've had to stop going to the nearest grocery store that seems to play Shania Twain's 'Forever and For Always' whenever I'm there. It's hard to shop for frozen entrees through cold-air blasted tears. Feels good on a flushed face though.
David Berman
Good
Tears
Face
Though
Seems
Through
Had
Feels
Always
Forever
Shop
Going
Stop
Whenever
Store
Frozen
Grocery
Grocery Store
Hard
Twain
Play
Nearest
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.
Douglas Booth
Love
Alone
You
Cinema
Better
Walk
Sit
Own
Nothing
Films
See
My Own
Go
Than
Just
Movie
Even
Nearest
Watching
Zone
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.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Time
Christian
Earth
Those
Points
Head
Remind
His
Snow
May
Heaven
Which
Aged
Us
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
Thoughts
Wonderful
Fears
Own
Relations
Secret
Dare
Must
Hopes
My Own
Nobody
Adventures
Reveal
Opinion
Dearest
Private
Surprising
Friends
Reflections
Interesting
Dislikes
Then
Dedicate
Whom
Nearest
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
George Bancroft
Truth
Decision
Mind
Criterion
Faculty
Common
Reason
Nearest
Universal
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw
Fire
National
Painting
Would
Course
Door
Which
Gallery
Nearest
Save
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