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Quotes About Proximity

Weeds you do not want to grow in your garden, grow at your front door.
~ Haitian proverb
Jer, lakse je podneti i najneprijatniji pogled nego oci koje uporno gledaju pored vas.
~ Ivo Andri?
Roarke leaned over
~ J.D. Robb
One must love what is nearest, one must love what is to hand, as a dog loves.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Sometimes words were less valuable than the air that carried them when it came to getting close.
~ J.R. Ward
Butch re-formed next to him and entered
~ J.R. Ward
got a close look at Doc Jane's red Crocs, Ehlena's blue ones, and his brother's knees as the male immediately crouched down next to him.
~ J.R. Ward
A veces las palabras eran menos valiosas que el aire que las transportaba, cuando se trataba de estar cerca.
~ J.R. Ward
The best thing in the world is to put two characters who hate each other side by side. Or put two people who love each other far away, so they have to reach for each other with their looks.
~ Dee Rees
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
~ Walter Bagehot
If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.
~ Townsend Harris
Near a war is always not very near.
~ Gertrude Stein
Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
~ Pythagoras
Ma and Mrs. Daly were on speaking terms, most of the time; women prefer to hate each other at close range, where you get more bang for your buck.
~ Tana French
The familiar was far away, while the bizarre was close at hand.
~ Ted Chiang
Ciò che doveva risultare familiare era remoto, e quel che avrebbe dovuto essere estraneo sembrava invece a portata di mano.
~ Ted Chiang
It is good to get the racing closer to the spectators.
~ Nino Schurter
I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby.
~ Anne Wojcicki
I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America.
~ Chad Kroeger
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
~ Confucius
Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
~ Meister Eckhart
She definitely heard the words for airplane and airport, which delighted some little-girl part of her soul ("Yay, going on a trip!") even as her higher brain was ticking off all the bad things that could happen when men like Jones came into proximity with jet aircraft.
~ Neal Stephenson
We see clear evidence that this point, and this point, must be very close to each other—perhaps, directly adjacent—because they seem to have a lot to do with each other; when one lights up, the other tends to light up at the same time, or a little before or after. So we can begin to make sense of this overall pattern of traffic as if it were a three-dimensional
~ Neal Stephenson
Above the shirt is her face
~ Ned Vizzini