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Quotes About Proximity

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
~ Sun Tzu
If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
~ James Reston
Because Alpha Centauri is so close, it is our first stop outside our solar system. There's almost certain to be small, rocky planets around Alpha Centauri A and B.
~ Debra Fischer
It is incredibly powerful if you solve the problem you actually have yourself. It's really tough to develop a good product when you don't have very close proximity to the people who actually use your product. The closest proximity you can have to those people is to be that person.
~ Tobias Lutke
You are so close I want to breath you in.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
Love lives on propinquity but dies on contact.
~ Thomas Hardy
Sometimes you are more comfortable with a person who gets close without coming close.
~ Shampa Sharma
God is closer to you than you think.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
They had spent the past ten years like two trees in a forest, near one another without ever touching.
~ Molly Cochran
Yes, I'm right here, Savich.
~ Catherine Coulter
In Mexico, wealth and poverty live next to each other and are cordial with each other - in my experience.
~ Whit Stillman
In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.
~ William Dampier
When you live in the projects, everything you need is in a mile radius: a basketball court, an indoor gym, a school, a grocery store, a shopping center.
~ Sheck Wes
I've never lived in Los Angeles. I've always lived 30 miles away in Long Beach.
~ Wendi McLendon-Covey
For more than fifty years, Americans and Cubans have been isolated from one another even though Cuba is only 90 miles away from Florida.
~ Ben Rhodes
Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida, but for a long time, the distance between our two countries seemed a lot greater.
~ Ben Rhodes
We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.
~ Thomas Bernhard
The proximity of Mary filled him with excitement; he had to work to slow his breathing. A drop, another drop – he was flicking his penis dry. It grew long and thin, the corona pointed and cleft like a hoof.
~ Kathryn Davis
Hayley was being nice. And had made a successful metaphor. Death was surely near.
~ Kathy Hepinstall
We've all heard of personal space, that blanket of nothing we need between ourselves and others. For me, the zone is eighteen inches. Break in, I get edgy.
~ Kathy Reichs
Tutti sappiamo cos'è lo spazio personale, quel niente di cui abbiamo bisogno tra noi stessi e gli altri. Per me il limite è a quarantacinque centimetri. Superatelo e divento nervosa.
~ Kathy Reichs
People used to say there were only six degrees of separation between anyone in the world. A 2011 study of 720 million Facebook users determined the true magic number to be 4.74. LinkedIn's system is built on three degrees of separation. Whichever way you slice it, we're all only a couple of mouse clicks away.
~ Keith Ferrazzi
Borders may divide us, but, paradoxically, they're also the places where we're nearest to one another.
~ Ken Jennings
Hate sometimes stands quite close to love. God too stands often near to evil—like silent chessmen—side by side. Only the color of the squares is different.
~ Calvin Miller