Quotes About Proximity

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

You can change friends but not neighbours.

The further from one another, the nearer one can be.

When you think of it, people may rub elbows and still have an ocean or two between them.

Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.

I actually have seven brothers in real life, and we're all very close in age. We basically go no more than two years between any of us.

You don't necessarily have to go to some exotic location halfway around the world. You can find that other world very close to where you live.

Some husbands and wives think they are spending time together when, in reality, they are only living in close proximity. They are in the same house at the same time, but they are not together. A wife who is texting while her husband tries to talk to her is not giving him quality time, because he does not have her full attention.

Some husbands and wives think they are spending time together when, in reality, they are only living in close proximity.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

When I was a kid, I got caught shoplifting by a store security guard in Ellensburg. The next time I saw that store guard was when I got thrown in jail again - this time for not paying court fees. The guy happened to be in jail, too, right next to me. That's what Eastern Washington is like - you never get too far away from anybody.

As infinite as the world's ingredients and flavors may seem, a great starting point for learning about them is a simple principle: What grows together, goes together.

A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

propinquity.

Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!

The future is a split second away.

I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in part pleasure, sensitizing and clarifying, and that it is even a truer bond among people than any kind of proximity.

Keeping his distance was a favor, a courtesy, to all those strangers who might, probably would, emerge somehow poorer for proximity to him.

I know Long Island like I know my kitchen. I understand it's there for my pleasure and enjoyment, but somehow I never manage to go there.

It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust.

The easiest way to a "lifestyle" is a government job. The following year, another survey (from Newsweek) found that seven of the ten wealthiest counties in the United States were in the Washington commuter belt.9 What matters in the America of the twenty-first century is proximity not to industry or to wealth creation but to government.