Quotes About Proximity

If I started a rock band or a company, I'd want to share the same physical space often. The upsides outweigh the downsides. However, if the people I wanted to work with were only available remotely, I'm confident we could do great work from thousands of miles away.

It's easier to get feedback and make adjustments with how a team works if you're in the same room. Feedback is hard to come by in life at all.

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.

Even enemies were an inch away from friendship.

Certainly war meant dying, but it always shifted the ground beneath a person's feet when it was someone who had once lived and breathed in close proximity.

Even the enemies were an inch away from friendship.

Every step I have taken has been to bring myself closer to you.

Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

Eventually the fight moved next door to the kitchen, providing them with better lighting as well as potential weapons.

her face lay still on the air under his face...

When the evening was over Alistair Cooke shook my hand goodbye and held it firmly, saying, 'This hand you are shaking once shook the hand of Bertrand Russell.' 'Wow!' I said, duly impressed. 'No, No,' said Cooke, 'It goes further than that. Bertrand Russell knew Robert Browning. Bertrand Russell's aunt danced with Napoleon. That's how close we all are to history. Just a few handshakes away. Never forget that.

Where am I? 'Why, you are here, your highness.' 'And where is here?' 'Far from there but close to nearby.

Our emotional response is driven by the proximity of the events.

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

True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.

It's the fact that when you spend all day in proximity to someone, there is no escape from their moods. Or your own.

It's the fact that when you spend all day in really close proximity to someone, there is no escape from their moods. Or your own.

That placed her inches from a yawning abyss.

The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer's personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.

But admiration is not love. Love wants proximity, reciprocity, the acceptance of vulnerability. Love alone does not say what we spend our lives saying, all the time, to everyone: 'I am worth more than you.' Love has other ways of finding reassurance, another authority that doesn't come from above but below.

Ama sin apegarte. Solo quien sabe estar en soledad puede encontrar el orden y la creatividad que luego verterá en su compañero o compañera. En el amor conyugal hay que buscar una buena ecuación entre proximidad y lejanía.