Quotes about Proximity

There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.

Cuba is in some ways a perfect trading partner for Minnesota because there's so little overlap between what they are good at and they produce and what Minnesota is good at and what we produce. So it's a natural trading relationship, especially because they're so close.

Holiness is proximity to the throne.

In my house we were so near that we could not begin to hear -- we could not speak low enough to be heard; as when you throw two stones into calm water so near that they break each other's undulations.

I doubted if the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life.

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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

There is no goodness that is not bodily and realistic and local.

Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers.

There are those who say that heaven and hell are not so far apart. They are not at opposite ends of the world beyond ours, only a step away from one another.

Peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near.