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Quotes About Proximity

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
~ Anonymous
Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
~ Anonymous
it was unnerving that a stronghold of barbarism should lie so dangerously close to civilized Italy.
~ Anthony Everitt
we only lived about fifteen minutes apart, which made the emotional distance between us all the more striking.
~ Anthony Horowitz
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
My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.
~ Greta Van Susteren
My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible.
~ Stana Katic
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
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
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
~ Frank Herbert
The Doctor character originated from playing Halo 2 on the Xbox and it had proximity chat where you could engage with someone in real-time on the microphone, and I loved that; I ate that up.
~ Dr. Disrespect
The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.
~ Jules Verne
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
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
We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like everybody on the island of Manhattan, we were impacted by it in so many ways in terms of what we saw, what we felt, what our daily experience became in the wake of it.
~ Mike D
I was really only around country music on the radio, and I think because I grew up so close to Atlanta, and R&B was such a big part of that culture, by proximity I think a lot of that music influenced me without knowing it.
~ Sam Hunt
I am from an F.D.R. liberal-Democratic family. With proximity to government, I have become more libertarian.
~ Eva Moskowitz
Music in the U.K. is not racialised in the same way as it is in the U.S. In the U.S.. it's more rigid and conservative. And white people in the U.K. have more close proximity with black people and people of colour in general.
~ Kelela
I was in a long-distance relationship. There's a lot of heartache in distance, and in proximity - those ideas you have when you're next to someone who you haven't seen in a month.
~ Sasha Spielberg
Every member of the Congress has access to the top leadership. It is not a question of proximity but if somebody shares a personal equation with any of the leaders it is really no reason for concern or insecurity as long as it is not at the cost of merit and performance.
~ Amarinder Singh
The best thing about my house is that I live five minutes from the airport, and since I fly more than I drive, it saves me a lot of time.
~ Shaggy
Sometimes in Formula One the fans are too far away from what is going on the track.
~ Robert Kubica
The Proximity of a Desirable Thing Tempts One to Overindulgence. On That Path Lies Danger.
~ Frank Herbert