Proximity Quotes
101 Proximity quotes by 94 unique authors
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Pritkin gave me a little shake and I eyed him without favor. The only other occasions when I had been dragged back in time, the…
— Karen Chance
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Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency…
— Mary Roach
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TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if…
— Ellen Hopkins
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raking a hand through his hair, he forced his attention to the text she'd left on the coffee table, refusing to dwell on the disconcerting…
— Karen Marie Moning
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He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.
— Tariq Ali
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Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.
— Nicholas Sparks
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I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.
— H P Lovecraft
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Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.
— Corey Taylor
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I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he…
— Philip K. Dick
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He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Sean settles swiftly behind me, and I'm startled by the sudden closeness of him, my back suddenly warm against his chest, the press of his…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.
— Maureen Johnson
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A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives…
— Farid al-Din Attar
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Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.
— David Levithan
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Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter,…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend…
— David Spangler
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I always thought that if you had any real proximity to famous people, that your obsession with famous people, would wane is some way. Like,…
— Lena Dunham
Who Wrote These Proximity Quotes
94 authors contributed a total of 101 Proximity Quotes, led by these top contributors: