Quotes About Proximity

friend of mine says you can't swing a dead cat without hitting one.

Oft times a blade across the room beyond the reach of a hand means that death is nearer. I

go. It was close enough, yet out of sight of the station.

How close the dead are. One song away from the living.

A veces la proximidad con la muerte te llena de una extraña, casi visionaria serenidad.

T]here is no goodness that is not bodily and realistic and local.

Death and life were just adjacent verandas.

Proximity to calamity released the human capacity for love.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

There are those who say that heaven and hell are not so far apart. They are not at opposite ends of the world beyond ours, only a step away from one another.

We became friends, I suppose, because we lived close to each other and it suited us and because when you are young friendships go unquestioned.

The worst enemies are the ones that live next door,

In any random slaughter, the difference between living and dying rarely has anything to do with willpower, or wisdom, or pluck. It's just a matter of where you're standing. Two inches to the right, and the bus hits you. If your office is on the ninety-second floor instead of the ninetieth, you don't make it out in time.

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.

People can talk all they want about the Big Ten. About Michigan and Ohio State and Indiana and Kentucky or whatever, but there's no way that compares. They're in different states. Here, we share the same dry cleaners." - Mike Kryzewski

As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit and parking as close to the stadium as possible.

Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen, denn das Glück ist immer nah.

It's a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She's on me and under me and next to me. It's as if the entire room is made out of her.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

They slept separate at first, as if proximity harassed them, but towards morning a movement began, and they woke deep in each other's arms.

We tended to imagine Canada as a kind of vast hunting preserve convenient to the United States.