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Quotes About Proximity

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~ Matt Morris
Unlike New York or Chicago, once you were inside Boston, any point in the city was fairly convenient to any other.
~ Matthew Pearl
Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.
~ Maureen Johnson
They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.
~ Maureen Johnson
but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't breed familiarity
~ Maureen Johnson
somehow when it's real, when it's your life...that person can feel farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.
~ Maureen Johnson
Sure, Noah was a bit closer than that...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't bread familiarity.
~ Maureen Johnson
We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.
~ Barack Obama
I have tried to teach my children to love nature as my parents taught that reverence to me -- through example, proximity, and plenty of field guides and age-appropriate biology books.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Murakami liked to fight. Hell, Pride wasn't enough for him. He needed more. And it wasn't the money. Pride, with promotions and pay-per-view, would pay a lot more, to the winners and losers. No. It wasn't the money for this guy. It was the excitement. The proximity to death. The high you can only get from killing a man who's simultaneously doing everything in his power to kill you. I know the sensation. It both fascinates and repulses me.
~ Barry Eisler
They weren't off on separate islands, teaching creative writing seminars or doing design reviews. That physical proximity made the space rich with exaptation: the literary stream of consciousness influencing the dizzying new perspectives of cubism; the futurist embrace of technological speed in poetry shaping new patterns of urban planning.
~ Steven Johnson
There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.
~ Confucius
To climb ever closer to God is not to move away from our troubled and troubling neighbors, but closer to them.
~ Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
he felt a glow of pleasure at the idea that here he would be too far out for the tidal wave of Parisian life to reach him, and yet near enough for the proximity of the capital to strengthen him in his solitude.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
I could take either of them. He was close
~ Erin Hunter
The hour draws near!
~ Ernest Cline
Though far you are near, cheering you on.
~ Esther Hershenhorn
Slight not what's near through aiming atwhat's far.
~ Euripides
Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
~ Euripides
Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.
~ Helmut Kohl
I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
~ Alexei Sayle
she realized that knowing someone comes from money isn't the same as witnessing the extent of it in close proximity
~ Bernardine Evaristo
As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit — and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
~ Bill Vaughan
I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.
~ Pope Francis