Quotes About Propinquity

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

Keith Miller

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Theodore Roethke

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Germaine Greer

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles. Sometimes you get excited about a new project and you want to work sixteen hours a day on it. Other times nothing seems interesting.

Paul Graham

#13. What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.

David Cameron

#14. Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it? was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt.

Emily Bronte

#15. Better late than never."-Dork Diaries

Rachel Renee Russell

#16. Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.

Evan Meekins

#17. If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

Idris Elba