Top 21 Proximate Quotes
#1. Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#2. She might even have felt that self-congratulatory pride that heterosexual white people are known to experience due to proximate diversity.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#3. Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
Richard Dawkins
#4. The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
Muhammad Iqbal
#5. Understanding proximate cause is also like understanding your mother: It can take years and then, just when you think you have her figured out, she surprises you.
Peter F. Lake
#6. The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out. p. 22
Thomas Merton
#7. There is an intense relationship between proximate objects, a much weaker one between objects further away, and as for the really distant ones there is none at all, and that is the nature of God.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
#8. For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#9. In any case, if recognition arising from proximate circumstances based upon fleeting criteria constitutes the sole measure of our personal significance, recognition will be both mercurial and insufficient.
Neal A. Maxwell
#10. Another world, another life, proximate but inaccessible. The elusive . . . Sat-is-fac-tion.
Graeme Simsion
#11. While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.
Thorstein Veblen
#12. It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.
Chris Hayes
#13. I found myself doing this same thing - playing a role of having greater certainty and greater competence than I really possess. I can't tell you how disgusted with myself I felt as I realized what I was doing: I was not being me, I was playing a part.
Carl R. Rogers
#14. In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.
Nicholas Deak
#15. Working at Amazon was not just a job - it was part of a visionary quest, something to give higher meaning to their lives.
Richard L. Brandt
#16. The difference between a trained mind and a free mind is that a trained mind will fail to see just how trained their mind is by tradition, while a free mind has discarded such limitations ...
Lionel Suggs
#17. Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.
Condoleezza Rice
#18. When I take a break for a week, it takes me three weeks to get back to where I was.
Troy Dumais
#19. Only in books the flat and final happens,
Only in dreams we meet and interlock ...
Philip Larkin
#20. You have bound us, Kimble imagined saying, to an evil world. Where's the love in that? And in that scenario, God always answered, Temporarily bound you, yes. Now, during your time in that evil world, did you do anything to help?
Michael Koryta
