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Quotes About Proximity

Finn is Daddy,' said Victoria with fat satisfaction. 'Not yet,' said Finn. 'But we'll christen the first one Proximity.' Melanie choked on a mouthful.
~ Angela Carter
When you think about it, Airbnb is a great solution if your family is traveling with you on business and you need more space, if you're going for an extended stay, like a week plus. It's a great solution if you want close proximity to the work site and maybe there isn't a hotel across the street or whatnot.
~ Nathan Blecharczyk
But to me, Broadway has always had more a 'village' feeling than London's West End. The theaters here are clustered together, the staff and many people in the business know each other - it's like a little village all to itself, whereas in London everything is more spread out.
~ Rosemary Harris
Do we need distance to get close?
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.
~ Levon Helm
It is exciting to have two sports teams close to where you live.
~ Steve Clevenger
building in Seattle's University District looked too nice to be housing eighteen- to twenty-two-year-old college students whose parents were likely fronting them just enough money to pay their rent and not starve. But the proximity of the building to the University of Washington campus and the inexpensive restaurants
~ Robert Dugoni
One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
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
In the 1970s, MIT professor Tom Allen showed that the closer people sat to one another, the more frequently they communicated—not just face-to-face communication, but via all media including telephone calls.
~ Robert I. Sutton
But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all Your works. – Psalm 73:28
~ Robert J. Morgan
Instances of delightfulness are always intrinsically beautiful, so to speak, and yet under the right circumstances they may be swinish as well, for what is humanly beautiful might, as it were, be too beautiful for human beings, for which reason people are glad to place beauty in proximity to pigpens, as one is no doubt justified in saying.
~ Robert Walser
Then she said Peter McCann had lived in her building for a good many years, and they had grown close, in a gruff and occasional and good-fences kind of a way.
~ Lee Child
hundred yards from the north end of Main Street. Further
~ Lee Child
at first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on each
~ Lewis Carroll
Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.
~ Libba Bray
Nuestro Dios no está más cerca de ti en un monte, en una ciudad o ni siquiera en una iglesia. Ningún individuo puede alejarte de su presencia.
~ Lisa Bevere
Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
~ Kabir
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
~ Nancy Kerrigan
Isabel's private theory of moral proximity, the basis of those obligations that came into existence when we found ourselves close enough to others to be able to witness or feel their needs, or when we were in some other way linked to their plight. We could not deal with all the suffering or need in the world, but we could—and should—deal with that sliver of suffering that was reasonably close to us.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
the distance fills and nearness is a void
~ Donald Revell
How quickly the brain, the body adapts to this new presence in life; how quickly the brain, the body develops a sense for it, for her--the ebb and flow of Addie's nearness and farness, the awareness of her location, her safety, her comfort and well-being.
~ Donna Freitas
For the first time ever we are bound together instead of miles apart in the same place.
~ Dorothy Koomson