Quotes About Proximity

This was a glimpse through that mysterious door, once shut, that now seemed to stand ajar. It was as if sounds of far-off conflict, or the muffled din of music and shouting, dimly heard in the past, had now come closer than ever before. Stringham

The truth is so much more real when it comes from things that are near.

Le persone sono lontane quando ci stanno accanto, figurarsi quando sono lontane davvero.

No one lives any nearer than the town. No one else will come any nearer than that.

Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it.

It isn't the size of the window that determines how much you see. It's which way the window is facing, and how close you are, and whether the glass is clear.

You are closer to me than my breath,

proximity/intimacy is not the same thing as connectivity: it is at best an elaboration, at worst a slippage.

How many people could say truthfully their god was a few feet away from them, made flesh, and that heaven was to be by his side?

I can't rest with you so close to me. I feel more alive than ever.

De ce în umbra lor infinitul ne pare aproape? Fiindca în preajma femeii nu mai exista timp.

I'm realizing I need to be in close proximity to everyone I'm working with because that - I don't know - it keeps me engaged.

I think proximity in recruiting matters the most.

I think a lot of things could be handled locally.

A man must not choose his neighbor: he must take the neighbor that God sends him…. The neighbor is just the man who is next to you at the moment, the man with whom any business has brought you into contact.

The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just in proportion to their approach the gentleness of most men diminishes.

How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

That is invariably the case in the East; a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

La vida es demasiado corta y la muerta está demasiado cerca.

When you're done with a job, even if you do stay in contact with certain people, it's never quite the same. It's a unique experience when you're working on a film or a television show together. You're together for 16 hours every day, sometimes six days a week. You're just never going to have that proximity again. So you miss people.

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

The sun is 91 million miles away; not too far, not too close. Be like that

This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will not be a stranger to make friends with.

The language describes the royal entourage who will ascend to welcome the King of Glory in the air (air does not mean heaven), in order to usher him back to earth in royal celebration. In other words, the language signals a common image: when the watchmen of a walled city heard the trumpet sound, signaling the proximity of their royal king, they would send out an entourage and create a royal procession as the victorious king returned.