Top 100 Quotes About Proximity
#1. Space is a spin network whose nodes represent its elementary grains, and whose links describe their proximity relations. Spacetime
Carlo Rovelli
#2. I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.
Michael Sandel
#3. Interesting, Miles thought. Like himself, Father Mark, as a child, had been reassured by the imagined proximity of God, whereas adults, perhaps because they so often were up to no good, took more comfort from His remoteness.
Richard Russo
#4. ...stars are dying all the time. Some explode. Some collapse and cave in on themselves. Those ones become black holes. Others get sucked up inside of them just for getting too close. Guilty by association. Prosecuted for proximity.
Kris Kidd
#5. There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is in close proximity to your penis.
This was not one of those times.
John Green
#6. As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance.
Irvine Welsh
#7. People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they're wrong: Proximity makes the heart grow fonder.
Jenny Han
#8. I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
Ben Nicholson
#10. Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.
Adam Duritz
#11. Both men accepted that the nature of the request, its intimacy and self-conscious reflection on their friendship, had created, for the moment, an uncomfortable emotional proximity which was best dealt with by their parting without another word.
Ian McEwan
#12. In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.
Robert Benton
#13. With every step her carriage seemed to become a little straighter and her movements more assured: it was as though the mere proximity of the building had caused a brisk professional to emerge from the chrysalis of a careworn wife and mother.
Amitav Ghosh
#14. I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.
Valerie Cruz
#15. One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.
Eric Burdon
#16. I probably shouldn't trust you. But for some reason, I do. She climbed out of the car, and instantly his entire body wakened to her proximity.
You're right, he whispered, lifting a hand to touch her cheek. You shouldn't trust me at all.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#17. It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.
Sonia Gandhi
#18. Raking a hand through his hair, he forced his attention to the text she'd left on the coffee table, refusing to dwell on the disconcerting fact that a part of him had taken one look at the lass in such proximity to his bed and said simply: Mine
Karen Marie Moning
#19. I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.
Zubin Mehta
#20. It isn't things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.
Genevieve Dewey
#21. Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.
Adam Ross
#22. 2. Evolve and Be God: As we invoke the presence of Source, holding the focus through our mantras, we are drawing more and more proximity to the object of worship and gradually, we attain all the attributes we are invoking, i.e., we slowly evolve to be Angelic, invoking the presence of God/Source.
Nandhiji
#23. Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.
Vicki Lawrence
#24. The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.
S. Kelley Harrell
#25. In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.
Phil Klay
#26. Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.
Julian Baggini
#27. We are neighbors in a modern world where proximity is relative and the threshold to our hearts moves outside time and space.
Chris Cornell
#28. The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#29. Seduction ... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.
Dan Simmons
#30. Geography should be the ultimate deciding factor for every political dilemma for proximity to an ailing land is bound to result in one's infection.
Aysha Taryam
#31. TO THE LADY JESSICA-
May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
My kindest wishes,
MARGOT LADY FENRING
Frank Herbert
#32. Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.
Gloria Reuben
#33. The proximity between the four of us could be measured with a shoe lace but the silence suggests a meadow.
Anonymous
#35. In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.
Greta Gerwig
#36. She would have lacked that inner warmth which somehow survives despite the relentless drudgery and constant proximity to human suffering. Her patients to her would have been flesh, bones, blood, not people.
Dorothy Simpson
#37. Transmission does not have to take place physically. The student doesn't have to be sitting across from you. But it's easier if they are because the vibration of the teacher is strongest in the physical proximity of the teacher.
Frederick Lenz
#38. I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.
H.P. Lovecraft
#39. Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
Jean Baudrillard
#40. Being salt and light demands two things: we practice purity in the midst of a fallen world and yet we live in proximity to this fallen world. If you don't hold up both truth in tension, you invariably becomes useless and separated from the world God loves.
David Kinnaman
#41. How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love s illusion. And yet
on the other hand
what was love if it wasn't this instinct she felt ...
David Guterson
#42. What I'm saying is: go barefoot. Or walk out with a handstand. Live in possibility and in constant proximity to desire. Don't just dream; burn your dreams. Heat your life with that fire.
Brad Cran
#43. Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
#44. The word 'God' defines a personal relation, not an objective concept. Like the name of the beloved in every love. It does not imply separation and distance. Hearing the beloved name is an immediate awareness, a dimensionless proximity of presence. It is our life wholly transformed into relation.
Christos Yannaras
#45. So I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbour's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires
F Scott Fitzgerald
#46. Seated at the table, high in her firmament of gin, she looked critically at her brother and his wife, remembering some real or imagined injustice of her youth, for with any proximity the constellations of some families generate among themselves an asperity that nothing can sweeten.
John Cheever
#47. Proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life.
Tim O'Brien
#48. Certainly war meant dying, but it always shifted the ground beneath a person's feet when it was someone who had once lived and breathed in close proximity.
Markus Zusak
#49. I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.
Edmund Phelps
#50. Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.
Auberon Waugh
#51. I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America.
Chad Kroeger
#52. When you dance together, there's a fabulous interaction. It's quite intimate. You're touching your partner, leading them. Learning how to behave in that person's proximity is a skill. I love it. I can't imagine tiring of it.
Anton Du Beke
#53. There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.
John Warner
#54. proximity/intimacy is not the same thing as connectivity: it is at best an elaboration, at worst a slippage.
John Tomlinson
#55. A fundamental aim of Mawlid al-Nabi a is to attain love and proximity of the Prophet and to revive the believer's relationship with his most revered person.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
#56. If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts.
David Brooks
#57. It was all I wanted for the longest time- to open my eyes and see you there. To stretch out my hand and touch the soft, yielding warmth of your skin. But now I have learned the secret of distance. Now I know being close to you was never about the proximity.
Lang Leav
#58. Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.
Louie Giglio
#59. A central aspect to quality time is togetherness. I do not mean proximity ... Togetherness has to do with focused attention.
Gary Chapman
#61. Seven and a half million hearts were beating in close proximity in this heaving old city, and many, after all, would be aching far worse than his.
Robert Galbraith
#62. Everything in proximity to the hero becomes tragedy; everything in proximity to the demigod becomes satyr-play; and everything in proximity to God becomes ... what? "world" perhaps?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. thambos, "that reverential terror and awe aroused by the proximity of any supernatural force or being which one discerns,
Eric Weiner
#64. Dante's definition of hell: proximity without intimacy. From the Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Melissa Bank
#65. I must confess I will miss your ... proximity when jumping together.'
'Well,' she said, answering his smile with one of her own.
'There's always sickle training in the ballroom.'
'That there is.
Michelle Zink
#66. Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.
Corey Taylor
#67. I'm sure that hasn't changed and he's still about as exciting as a kiddie roller coaster." And seeing as how Cat typically selected vacation destinations based on the proximity of the best amusement park, this was the highest of insults.
Christine Bell
#68. The Airlines lady who travels in the same compartment as us day after day, has bruises on her arms and face today and her eyes keep welling, but no one asks her why. Our eyes dart towards her, but we go back to travelling in too much proximity. Two inches from one another and expressionless.
Amruta Patil
#69. I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.
Joe Lieberman
#70. It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
Ernest Hemingway,
#71. From the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the extent of budget deficits but also the domestic and foreign policies ...
Niall Ferguson
#72. Aware of her uneasy gaze straying to his rampant arousal, Sebastian shot her a scornful glance.
"Pay it no mind," he said, climbing into bed with her. "From now on, I have every expectation that proximity to you will affect my private parts like a prolonged swim in a Siberian lake.
Lisa Kleypas
#73. It is possible to hold a treasure in your hand but be ignorant of it and go for the wrapping instead. This proximity to truth and distance from its worth is repeated innumerable times in our lives.
Ravi Zacharias
#74. Proximity to the condemned and incarcerated made the question of each person's humanity more urgent and meaningful, including my own.
Bryan Stevenson
#75. It was nice to be in such close physical proximity, even though they hadn't spoken in months, and only via cursory birthday cards and the like. In the end, it didn't matter. Sisters were sisters.
Emma Straub
#76. Things like this - love-relationships - need a certain minimum of proximity to keep them going.
Lynne Reid Banks
#77. First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.
Maria Edgeworth
#78. Therefore, according to the Bible, the essence of a city was not the population's size but its density. A city is a social form in which people physically live in close proximity to one another.
Timothy Keller
#79. Everything he had once been was erased, written over by time and experiences and the proximity to money.
Hanya Yanagihara
#80. His touch and proximity were starting to arouse me again. Or maybe it was just the thought of Spock, I couldn't be sure.
Shaye Marlow
#81. It's so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.
Ellie Goulding
#82. Virtuality - connection without proximity - is a major attraction in both fandom and the Net. Nobody knows you're a dog through the U.S. mail, either. Fans could be utterly different in their fanzine persona, which may be why both fandom and the Net were invented by individualistic Americans.
Gregory Benford
#83. She questioned my sexual preference in a highly offensive way, so my fist questioned the proximity of her face in an even more offensive way.
Kelly Oram
#85. There's definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There's something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.
Johnny Depp
#86. The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone; don't harass me; I'm intolerant towards your over-proximity.
Slavoj Zizek
#87. A teacher had two types of students. One type of student is a close student. The other is also a close student, but not in the sense of physical proximity. The close students rotate a lot.
Frederick Lenz
#88. The close proximity in which people lived in India was in stark contrast to my independent existence in America.
Padma Lakshmi
#89. I always thought that if you had any real proximity to famous people, that your obsession with famous people, would wane is some way. Like, I wouldn't want to deep google Matthew McConaughey's early relationships for hours before I go to bed. And it's just gotten worse.
Lena Dunham
#90. En pointe she was a force, a tornado: safe to look at from a distance, but in close proximity, you risked being just another piece of her debris. Some days I thought I could only be so lucky.
Julie Murphy
#91. If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.
Eric Braeden
#92. In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky.
Jodi Picoult
#93. On the mantelpiece, the photograph of a chimpanzee and a statuette of the Buddha. This proximity, more accidental than intentional, makes me wonder over and over where my place might be between these two extrems, man's pre and transfiguration.
Cioran
#94. I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires
all for eighty dollars a month.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#95. All life was lived within the close proximity of tragedy.
Fran Seen
#96. There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#97. Schopenhauer has a metaphor for human closeness. He writes about cold porcupines who have to snuggle up to keep warm, but if they snuggle too close they stab each other with their quills. A crowd of porcupines is constantly, uncomfortably assessing the safety of proximity.
Brenda Walker
#98. Our Virtues are wrapped inside of our limitations. It is only when we are in close proximity to others that we begin to intimately explore the boundaries of our virtues by slamming into our limitations.
Resmaa Menakem
#100. The problem with proximity friends is, they move away. They quit or get fired.
Chuck Palahniuk
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