Quotes About Proximity

Sometimes the person you're closest to is the one you understand the least. Sometimes, when you're that close, everything just blurs.

How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our concept of God can make God seem real or unreal, just as it can also make God seem remote or near.

Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows.

The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it.

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

So much of friendship is about being in the right place at the right time.

The apple never falls far from the tree.

He drew closer as if I were a light and he wanted to be in it.

Even if his eyes were dull as though the dazzling colors of my paintings did not matter to him, was he not near at hand?

As Melissa got closer, the taste of school began to foul her mouth.

Given the profound alienation of modern society, when combat vets say that they miss the war, they might be having an entirely healthy response to life back home. Iroquois warriors did not have to struggle with that sort of alienation because warfare and society existed in such close proximity that there was effectively no transition from one to the other.

Poor Wales, so far from Heaven, so close to England!

lowered her husky voice. "How close were you

Life's extremities can bring God's proximity.

A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

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.

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close.

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

and even had sex once or twice. Death and sex—close companions.

So what do you think, Miss Bennet? Will you come to Pemberley?" He Spoke quietly over her shoulder; she hadn't realized he was so close. Feeling a mischievous impulse, likely from her nervousness at his proximity, she said the first thing that came to her mind. "It is tolerable, I suppose, but not hadsome enough to tempt me." Mr. Darcy's face went from shocked and angry, to hurt and confused, and finally to understanding as her words sunk in.

My hand, innocent of its glove, catches hers. I move her fingertip from my face, but still we are skin to skin.

No podrías estar más cerca de mi corazón que ahora.

If she was up at the cash register and he was behind his counter, he could still feel the invisible presence of her against him <...> —their inner selves brushing up against the other.