Famous quotes containing the words draw near and/or draw:
“When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 20:10.
“Dark
days are past
and darker days draw near;
darkness on this side,
darkness over there
threatens the spirit.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“You do draw my spirits from me
With new lamenting ancient oversights.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)