Quotes About Proximity

Bayern is a big club and a big brand, but on a daily basis, it's a family club. You get to know the physios, the kit man, the chefs. It's also a club that's very close to the supporters. That proximity to the fans makes it special. That was surprising. In Liverpool and Madrid, there's more distance.

Manhattan is a small town. It has to be. Only half a dozen places in Kansas are anything else.

The thing looked cut and dried to them. A nasty affair between two rather nasty people, too much loving, too much drinking, too much proximity ending in a savage hatred and a murderous impulse and death.

Georgia O'Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, "from the faraway nearby." It was a way to measure physical and psychic geography together. Emotion has its geography, affection is what is nearby, within the boundaries of the self. You can be a thousand miles from the person next to you in bed or deeply invested in the survival of a stranger on the other side of the world.

We are careless of that which is near us, and follow that which is afar off, to which we will travel and sail beyond the seas.

It wasn't anywhere he could afford to live on his salary. From among the several properties that his parents owned, he'd simply chosen the one here due to its proximity to his workplace.

Sean stood up and stepped toward me, ostensibly to show me the book. He was definitely invading my personal space, as I had learned in a Human Evolution class last summer, and I instinctively backed up till my legs hit the chair I had been sitting in. That just made him move in closer, until the grommets in the leather embossed the backs of my knees, and he finally tilted the book toward me.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

Do not stand at a distance and wave hands. Get closer and hug.

The closer you get to the source, the more you begin to understand its essential nature.

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

Our emotional response is driven by the proximity of events.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

What do we know but that we face one another in this place?

two men usually filled and left plenty of room on either side.

Satan knows what orders thou keepest in thy house and closet, and though he hath not a key to thy heart, yet he can stand in the next room to it, and lightly hear what is whispered there.

Vandenhoff disliked standing with or even near tall men.

If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts.

Aby Warburg est ainsi à l'origine d'un fonds bibliophilique inouï. Il a des théories sur le rangement des livres. Notamment celle du bon voisinage. Le livre que l'on cherche n'est pas forcément celui que l'on doit lire. Il faut regarder celui d'à côté.

Il y a des théories sur le rangement des livres. Notamment celle du bon voisinage. Le livre que l'on cherche n'est pas forcément celui que l'on doit lire. Il faut regarder celui d'à côté.

How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love s illusion. And yet--on the other hand--what was love if it wasn't this instinct she felt...

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.