China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
My close friends call me the bulldozer who never says no. I have never not made a film.
My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
If I can push myself up to the 2018 World Cup, then I'll go on. After that, I'll close the door and stop playing football.
You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.
If the food of friendship is time together, how do we make the time to ensure we're all fed? My friends and I have recently come across a way to keep each other close. It fits into our lifestyles despite busy schedules and a surfeit of children. We call it the 'kibbutz.'
We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.
We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.
I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.
I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.
Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.
One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.
There are always moments of despair when you get close to jobs and lose them at the last second. It feels like getting punched in the stomach. You feel like, 'Why do I do this?' Then you go to bed, get up the next day and forget about it.
We try to stick pretty close to what our goals are and what we believe and what we enjoy doing in life - just simple things.
I'm very close to my parents and my grandma.
I've always loved the idea that you think you know what you're looking at from a distance, yet when you come up close, it gets intricate and nutty and obscene and provocative.
If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.
I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff.
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.
I'm not even close to where I want to be; it's just a little mini step on the way. This is only the beginning.
Growing up, I was the awkward, chubby kid. I had a few close friends, but I was the first one to be bullied.
The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the devotion, unlike any other and the protectiveness.
I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.
It is not good practice to become intrigued by Satan and his mysteries. No good can come from getting close to evil.
Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don't think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.
I still have moments when I close myself in, but I wouldn't be on the path that I am with the career that I've had if I didn't have a deep understanding of the sense of my inner freedom.
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.
