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Quotes About Proximity

I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.
~ Cynthia Nixon
There's no doubt arena shows are exciting, but you don't get that up close and personal kind of vibe, and that's what rock n' roll is all about for me.
~ Joe Perry
In the 1970s, we got a Labor government that put more emphasis on trade with Asia; the Vietnam war ended, and refugees were coming in. We were more part of Asia than America and the rest of the world. There was the proximity, for a start - all these countries and cultures just north of us. It just made sense that that's what we were part of.
~ Jimmy Barnes
Knowing of your penchant for trouble, Miss Bowman, I have concluded that it is safer to keep you in my sight, and within arm's reach if possible.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I don't want to talk about it," she said. Once again he was close. Too close. So damn close. "At all," she added, hearing with some alarm that her voice had softened. Everything had softened, at just his proximity. "Ever," she whispered, and found her gaze locked on his mouth. He had a really great mouth.
~ Jill Shalvis
Been looking for you," Sam said as he opened Cole's passenger door and got in. Tanner helped himself at the driver's door, forcing Cole over so that he was sandwiched between them, coming into such a close and personal relationship with the gearshift that the two of them should have gotten a marriage license first.
~ Jill Shalvis
Prejudice," Rickey told the table. "It reflects an attitude of a great many people in this country who don't introspect themselves very closely about their own prejudices. . . . You can't meet it with words. You can't take prejudice straight on. It must be done by proximity. Proximity! The player alongside you. No matter what the skin color or language. Win the game. Win all. Get the championship and the check that goes with it.
~ Jimmy Breslin
If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
~ Joan Crawford
If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.
~ Jodi Picoult
In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky.
~ Jodi Picoult
When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
~ Unknown
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.
~ Vikram Seth
The temple is nearby, God is far away.
~ Unknown
the kingdom of God is so close and nearby that we might have overstepped it in our amusement in the playgrounds of promise.
~ Unknown
It is very near us that country is, it is on every side; it may be on the bare hill behind it is, or it may be in the heart of the wood.
~ W.B. Yeats
The big change is the proximity to death.
~ Leonard Cohen
And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire.
~ Philip Yancey
These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends' children... the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.
~ Phillip C. McGraw
o semelhante sempre do semelhante se aproxima.
~ Plato
Puedes tener algo a la vista durante toda tu vida, esperando que reconozcas su presencia, pero a menudo estás demasiado cerca para verlo.
~ Dennis Lehane
One of the amusing aspects of this is that IF telepathy is what it is, then one need not be in the proximity of a telepath in order to have their mind penetrated.
~ Unknown
One of the amusing aspects of this is that IF telepathy is what it is, then one need not be in the proximity of a telepath in order to have their mind penetrated. Another
~ Unknown
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
He used to tell himself although he knew it wasn't true that the air around her house was different because it was near to her.
~ Dalton Trumbo