Nears Quotes

While the Cloister at Sea Island has continued to welcome guests into a variety of outstanding facilities with its characteristic warmth and genuine hospitality, momentum has been building as this spectacular icon hotel nears completion. - Robert Rippee

We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, nearsighted 125-pounder to this Sherman tank of a man. - Edmund Morris

We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, nearsighted 125-pounder to this Sherman tank of a man, so tough that he once got shot on the way to make a speech and completed his talk, bleeding with a bullet in his chest. - Nicholas Meyer

This is absolutely the worst-case situation we have long feared. Pray for Louisiana citizens as this storm nears. - Andy Kopplin

The U.S. July renewals will be stunning as they consist mostly of renewing disaster risks, and (rate rises) will be mostly north of 30%, maybe 40%. Not all primary insurers have bought cover yet - they are waiting to get lower prices, but they risk paying more (as the hurricane season nears). - Michael Huttner

The total in production cuts announced so far by non-OPEC countries nears only 300,000 bpd and we are still awaiting more efforts (from them). - Chakib Khelil

The market has moved little. We don't see much buying at this time of the year as the book-closing for the fiscal year-end nears. - Akitsugu Bando

So who's perfect? Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated. - John O'Hara

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze. - Garrison Keillor