Quotes About Proximity

Three things to remember about shopping are location, location, location.

Dante's definition of hell: proximity without intimacy. From the Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing

The path of duty lies in what is near, and man seeks for it in what is remote.

New York City is a place where everyone lived on top of each other, and that was exactly how Sabrina liked it. Living out in the middle of nowhere was dangerous and suspicious.

Remember: You don't want to be meeting your neighbours for the first time in the middle of the night when your house is burning

Physical proximity, of course, facilitates the common education of the affects, but also essential are the intense experiences of cooperation, the creation of mutual security in a situation of extreme vulnerability, and the collective deliberation and decision-making processes. The encampments are a great factory for the production of social and democratic affects.

Indiana and Illinois, the two states conjoined like Siamese twins.

Within a stone's throw of it.

Influence means living a healthy emotional life in close proximity to others

I només tu ets pròxima i et sento, immòbil i expectant, just al darrera de tantes portes que cap pany no tanca.

Kader arad??? ki?iyi insan?n kar??s?na her seferinde kap? kom?usu olarak ç?karmaz. Uzaklar? yak?n etmek dü?er size. Haritalar? seviniz.

The best means by which a slave seeks proximity to God after recognising Him, is praying, benevolence to the parents, and abandonment of envy, self-conceit and vaunting.

He didn't move back to allow me to walk by him, and so I had to brush heavily against him on my way out the door. I felt as if my body were metal to his magnet, and I had literally to pull away from him.

The knife closest to you causes more harm than the one far from you.

The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

One of the ways, therefore, we will be "proved herewith" is our determination as to whether or not we love others enough to give and to receive such vital communications. We may quickly say that communicating thusly with those close to us is difficult; indeed, it is, but with whom else is it really possible? Are not the people proximate to us our tiny portion of humanity, given to us by God as our social stewardship?

Subjectively, the object of your desire is never far off; its intense nearness makes it remote from observation of the senses. It dwells in consciousness, and consciousness is closer than breathing and nearer than hands and feet.

Air travel is such a strange experience. It´s such an intimate thing, to travel alongside a stranger for so many hours, to eat together, take in a film, snooze side by side. In economy I think that it´s so intimate, that like neighbours on the same landing, most of us consider that it´s better not to take the risk of ever getting to know them. In business class, there´s just enough room - as elbows don´t actually touch - to take that chance.

For Leifen, a thing is beautiful if she can reach out and put her hand on it any time.

I stood behind him for nearly a minute-close enough to smell the familar bitter hint of coffee grounds-before he jerked around and whipped off his shades.

The woman knelt by Peretur, close enough to touch her on the knee, though she did not.

Bu kadar yak?n?mda oldu?unu bilmiyordum ama, sen bir yerde var olursan ya?ayabilirim ancak demi?tim.

All is visible and all elusive, all is near and can't be touched.

People are always far away.