Quotes About Proximity

proximity functions as a kind of connective drug. Get close, and our tendency to connect lights up. As scientists have pointed out, the Allen Curve follows evolutionary logic. For the vast majority of human history, sustained proximity has been an indicator of belonging—after all, we don't get consistently close to someone unless it's mutually safe.

I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.

simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

How close they all were, without knowing it, to disaster. All the time.

They were very close. Like this.' Here Yolande attempted to cross her fingers but the nails kept knocking into each other making it look like a finger puppet version of All Star Wrestling.

Beauvoir was so close to Frère Raymond

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries.

We're a very cousiny people," Mary Harty told me. "One must tread very lightly here: Everyone is kin to everyone else.

Seated at the table, high in her firmament of gin, she looked critically at her brother and his wife, remembering some real or imagined injustice of her youth, for with any proximity the constellations of some families generate among themselves an asperity that nothing can sweeten.

Better a near neighbour than a distant cousin.

Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

There is a reason why the letters U and I are NEXT TO EACH OTHER in the keyboard. Because its U and I are meant to be.

Death and life were just adjacent verandas.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

Mr. Breton didn't know about location, location, location.

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

My mother had always been a working woman and so she would drop me to my mama's house everyday for the whole day since it was close by.

It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology.

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home buyers sometimes make the mistake of focusing on home acquisition as an investment and overlook quality-of-life factors such as proximity to schools, parks, extended family, and work—all of which are the aspects of daily life that make for a healthy, safe, and comfortable home.

When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.

Proximity and activity don't always equal connectivity.