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Quotes About Proximity

Home is everything you can walk to.
~ Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.
~ Suzanne Collins
There's an empty seat next to me in the 'intensely aggravating' section…and it's got your name on it
~ M.A. George, Relativity
Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.
~ C. S. Lewis
A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
~ Samuel Grafton
Only old maids and women who'd been widowed for over ten years could apply for membership in the SLS. They had a firm belief that the close proximity of men clouded logical thinking. I tended to agree.
~ Jana Deleon
I'm very close to my dad. He's about six inches away right now and snoring in my ears.
~ Jarod Kintz
The further away you are from something, the fuzzier it becomes.
~ Jason Fried
In the proximity of death, the whole concept of ownership stands revealed as ultimately meaningless.
~ Eckhart Tolle
e ela concluiu que a vinda de Selden, se não provava que ele ainda estava envolvido com Mrs. Dorset, mostrava que ele estava completamente livre a ponto de não temer a proximidade dela.
~ Edith Wharton
we had evolved to grub around within a few kilometres of the same village, in the same time zone, under the same fixed stars.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Perché nessuno possa dimenticare che non si è mai lontani abbastanza per trovarsi, mai.
~ Alessandro Baricco
We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.
~ Robin Gibb
Love is closeness.
~ Matthew Hussey
My relationship with my sister is closer than white on rice.
~ Marquise Goodwin
The things you're closest to are often the things you know least about.
~ Matthew Desmond
Appellate advocacy, particularly at the Supreme Court, is really intimate. I mean, you're just a few feet away from the Chief Justice. You know, if you're sweating, they see you.
~ Neal Katyal
In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside. For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything.
~ Wolfgang Puck
Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
~ Fatos Nano
La lucidité est la blessure la plus rapprochée du soleil.
~ Rene Char
I got the address from her, and by good luck it wasn't Bucyrus, Ohio, but merely Brooklyn. Whatever else you want to say about Brooklyn, and so do I, it does have one big advantage, it's close.
~ Rex Stout
Learning is not proportional to the distance from the board
~ Ricardo Stewart
It surprises Adam, the proximity of coziness to terror.
~ Richard Powers
Interesting, Miles thought. Like himself, Father Mark, as a child, had been reassured by the imagined proximity of God, whereas adults, perhaps because they so often were up to no good, took more comfort from His remoteness.
~ Richard Russo