Quotes About Proximity

Some breeds are noisier than others—a fact that should be taken into consideration when you have neighbors in close proximity.

When someone is close by, you just know it.

image. It seemed as if they were walking near

But if familiarity breeds contempt, it also fosters a bond—

As a veteran journalist who covered both sides of the waterfront once remarked, had a path been paved across the Hudson, Chelsea and Hoboken would have made one neighborhood.

He and I had an office so tiny, that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

On Earth it is never possible to be farther than sixteen thousand miles from your birthplace

How strange that all you have to do sometimes to meet somebody is walk up to their house and ring a doorbell, and magically they appear as if from nowhere.

It's maddening really," said Patricia. "Probably the only chance in my life that I shall ever have of being right on the spot when a murder was done—it is a murder, isn't it? The papers were very cautious and vague, but I said to Gerry on the telephone that it must be murder. Think of it, a murder done right close by me and I wasn't even looking!" The regret in her voice was unmistakable.

Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour' 'Well, it's bloody close...' 'Well, they often are....

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

I'm not from Philly - I'm from South Jersey, but we still consider that the Philly area.

Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

It's easy to look at where your pieces are now and place the next one nearby.

You can either dab or swirl," he said, leaning forward to show me. Which put him even closer, close enough that it was almost an embrace. So close that my mouth went dry. "Personally"--he cleared his throat--"I like the swirl.

The experience of riding in a subway or elevator calls to mind Bertrand Russell's remark that much of modern anxiety stems from the time we spend in unnatural proximity to strangers without the preliminary sniffing that is instinctive in animals, including us.

Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

Ideally, the problem-solving group meets around a single table, thereby providing as much nonverbal information as possible. Being physically close to other human beings provides an immeasurable advantage as you interact and communicate.

SOMETIMES BEING TOO CLOSE TO THE GOALS WE SEEK IN LIFE CAUSES US TO HAVE LESS A DESIRE TO ENJOY THE TRUE IMPORTANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF LIFE ITSELF. eg. MOST PEOPLE LIVING CLOSE TO THE NIAGARA FALLS SEEM TO VISIT IT LESS, BUT WILL QUICKLY CARRY SOME VISITOR TO SEE IT.

Butler was like 20 minutes from my house, so I was pretty much at home. I never had my own apartment and made my own meals for myself and all that.

Sometimes we can think it would be great to live around the time of Christ in order to be very close to him, but we already are very close to him in the Catholic Church.

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