Quotes About Proximity

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

It was close enough that I could sometimes walk home for lunch.

sat to my left.

Regional films have a great impact on the audience, especially because of the proximity of the language with the people.

Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.

I would say the only thing I may change is that my whole family could live in Louisiana. That would be nice if all our houses were a block away from each other. That, to me, would be the best thing in the entire world.

I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.

Maybe propinquity was counterproductive. *

and heads close together like parrots

Baines wasn't really happy; he was only watching happiness from close to instead of from far away

People assumed we called the record 'Murray Street' because of its proximity to the World Trade Centre, but that wasn't it at all. Before the attacks, I had simply been walking around taking pictures of things, and I had this photograph of the street sign. We felt it was somewhat evocative and decided to use it on the back cover of the album.

The best thing is being really close. The worst thing is being really close.

That will be on my tombstone: He lived five minutes away from Flying Lotus.

Elle était si proche de lui qu'il distinguait les pores de sa peau. Contrairement à lui, elle attachait une grande importance à son hygiène corporelle. Le dernier peeling de Martin remontait à un an, quand deux Solvènes l'avaient traîné sur l'asphalte d'une aire d'autoroute en lui plaquant la figure contre le sol.

Being in proximity makes a difference. Relationships make issues real and complicated and personal. Relationships move us from ideology to compassion. We can't love our neighbor if we don't know them. And once we are proximate, love requires us to take action, to stand up for life in tangible ways.

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

How long can you keep me invisible?" "As long as were in physical contact." My throat felt dry. "Holding hands?" That's how we'd done it last time. "Unless you had something else in mind?

In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.

The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.

What is far is very close, and what is close is very far

In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.

How sometimes everything closes up, a painted fan, landscapes and moments flowing together until the sense of distance— say, between Clapp's Pond and me— vanishes, edges slide together like the feathers of a wing, everything touches everything.

Here is the secret to surviving one of these crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical Institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.