Quotes About Proximity

ACCOLENT  (A'CCOLENT)   n.s.[accolens, Lat.] He that inhabits near a place; a borderer.Dict.

Gentrification is a public policy for managing strangers: a way of removing those who would be eyesores; those who would reduce the value of a neighborhood; those whose proximity would be registered as price.

coming closer, their

But it was one thing to be cold over distance, another entirely when they were in your same zip code.

It didn't matter that I'd done none of those things. With shame, like horseshoes, proximity counts.

With shame, like horseshoes, proximity counts.

never sit in the first row at the ballet.

Look carefully at the closest associations in your life, for that is the direction you are heading.

Proximity to reality induces feelings of emptiness, horror and depression. Do not approach it alone.

On ne parle pas assez quand il en est temps et les âmes se boucanent côte à côte.

The attraction of an exotic presence that was intensely carnal and at the same time as intangible as a promise was contained not in her attitude or words but in her very presence, the shape of her face, the color of her hair and eyes, the timbre of her voice, and something else not in her, the promise of so many unfulfilled and often unformed desires in him, roused by her proximity as if by a clap of hands or a voice revealing the dimension of a great area of darkness.

I don't look any further than what's right in front of me.

What you seek is close by and rises to meet you.

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?

Too close. If we live in too close proximity to a person, it is as if we kept touching a good etching with our bare fingers; one day we have poor, dirty paper in our hands and nothing more. a human being's soul is likewise worn down by continual touching; at least it finally appears that way to us - we never see its original design and beauty again.

But as always, the distance between them gave way to a need to be closer.

WattUp is one of those rare breakthroughs that recognizes that the so-called 'battery' problem in wireless devices is solved with a charging solution that is transparent to the user. The cell phone with a dead battery can become a relic of the past. The days of wired, mat-based and proximity charging are over.

Where I grew up was a place called Salford, which was the industrial heartland of Manchester. And where I lived in Salford, I could walk to the center of Manchester within about 20 minutes. So I lived really close to the center.

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.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

As the last note sobbed to death, we came face to face, closer than was natural, our steps meshed in the confined space.

very close at hand, and at the same

And my body slopes toward yours no matter how level the ground.