Quotes of Proximity - somelinesforyou

“ Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. ”

- Learned Hand

“ Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. ”

- Charles Ives

“ A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ”

- Washington Irving

“ If we find housing, we'll be stable. We know the area that we're living in. We'll be able to find work in the vicinities. ”

- Richard Rodriguez

“ Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition? ”

- Arthur Hugh Clough

“ Backstage they think the only reason he's even in the vicinity was because they told him this whole thing was yesterday. ”

- Paul Newman

“ Some boundless contiguity of shade. ”

- William Cowper

“ Love lives on propinquity, but dies on contact. ”

- Thomas Hardy

“ A person's proximity to God is measured by his compassion toward his fellow man. ”

- Rabbi Samuel Belkin

“ Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. ”

- Germaine Greer

“ If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. ”

- Ouida

“ It used to be that after we cleared out a city, there were not enough qualified Iraqi troops to maintain control,... And so what would happen is the terrorists would wait for us to leave and they would try to move back in, and sometimes with success. Now the increasing number of more capable Iraqi troops allows us to hold onto the cities we have taken from the terrorists. ”

- George W. Bush

“ There's no question there was a lot of talent there. From 1 through 15 we had as much or more as anyone in the league. We were winning in the vicinity of 50 games, had the highest payroll. But that wasn't producing anything better than first-round elimination in the playoffs, so the decision was made to go in a different direction. ”

- John Nash
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