Propinquity's Quotes

#1. Love makes me naked;
Propinquity's a harsh master;
O the songs we hide singing to ourselves!

Theodore Roethke

#2. The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

James Madison

#3. There was present that night at Henley's, by right of propinquity or of accident, a man full of the secret spite of dullness, who interrupted from time to time and always to check or disorder thought;

W.B.Yeats

#4. Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.

Peter Porter

#5. A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

Potter Stewart

#6. Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#7. In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.

Noam Chomsky

#8. I'm going to have a project-based life rather than a job-based life.

David Plotz

#9. True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

Helen Rowland

#10. Ivan couldn't think of a religion that was any damn good at making utter truthtellers out of its practitioners. Maybe the Quakers were truly plainspoken at one time, but even they managed to squeeze out a Richard Nixon after a few hundred years of suppressing their human propinquity for untruth.

Orson Scott Card

#11. But the bond - the bond of romantic love is something else. It has so little to do with propinquity or habit or space or time or life itself. It leaps across all of them, like a rainbow - or a glance.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#12. The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#13. Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Germaine Greer

#14. The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#15. But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

Keith Miller

#16. The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.

Quentin Crisp

#17. The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

Rutherford B. Hayes