Parallels Quotes

• Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

  Pete Carroll

  Branches, Infinite, Parallel Universe

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• The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.

  Emma Thompson

  Two, Switching, Flashback

  "Emma Thompson Talks SAVING MR. BANKS, Her Preparation Process, Getting Input from Richard Sherman, Terrence Malick’s VOYAGE OF TIME, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 20, 2013.

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• There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before. Not only man puts things in a row, but things belong in a row.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Block, Men, Design

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, University of Georgia Press

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• Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, Simple, Special

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• A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

  Jose Saramago

  Fashion, Construction, Destruction

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• The Tao asks you to clearly see the parallels between you and this naturally flowing substance that allows life to sustain itself. Live as water lives, since you are water. Become as contented as the fluid that animates and supports you. Let your thoughts and behaviors move smoothly in accordance with the nature of all things.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moving, Support You, Water

  Dr Wayne W Dyer (2009). “Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.48, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

  Terence McKenna

  World, Way, Century

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• She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Thoughtful, Library

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• It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Distance, Space

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt an almost irresistible urge to take her hand and place it flat against my chest, near my heart. Maybe I should've done it. I know now that she would've laughed, if I'd done it, and she would've liked me for it. But strangers that we were then, we stood for five long seconds and held the stare, while all the parallel worlds, all the parallel lives that might've been, and never would be, whirled around us.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Hands, Long

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• In fact, Clinton-era publications of the US Space Command describe control over space as a parallel to control over the oceans a century ago. Then, countries built navies to protect and enhance their power in commercial and strategic interests. Today, the militarization of space is intended to protect US investments and commercial interest and US hegemony around the world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Ocean, Space

  Source: www.madre.org

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• We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.

  Marina Abramovic

  Reality, Minutes, Parallel Lives

  "Marina Abramovic Talks 'The Artist is Present,' Her Thoughts On Censorship, Art & More". Interview with Christopher Bell, www.indiewire.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and backpacks, and Sony personal CD players and head for school.

  Naomi Klein

  Nike, Morning, School

  Naomi Klein (2009). “No Logo”, p.119, Macmillan

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• Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there that we can't observe at present or you have to say there was a plan. I actually find the argument of the existence of a God who did the planning more compelling than the bubbling of all these multiverses.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Planning, Argument

  Source: inters.org

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• I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

  Ian Anderson

  Art, School, Tree

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• When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Perseverance, Believe

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• Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels with our contemporary world, especially here in Southern California, where the sunlit life also turns out to have dark shadows in which failure and death lurk at the edge of consciousness. Now in these times, we have even closer parallels with those ancient, beautiful, affluent people living the good life on the verge of annihilation.

  Eleanor Antin

  Beautiful, Good Life, Dark

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• Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Taken, Our Generation

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.17, InterVarsity Press

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• I want to have different Ferraris for different Ferraristi. We have a lot of parallel activities that can increase revenues without being obliged to produce more cars.

  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  Car, Want, Ferrari

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• I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Tests, Parks, Backing Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Play, Usa

  "Neil Gaiman Interview". Interview with Trevor Valle, www.bitingdogpress.com.

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• To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of parallel life. A safari is an expensive experience and it's adjacent to a place where people are having a very tough time.

  Paul Theroux

  Animal, People, Tough Times

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Our outer world will always be a reflection of our inner world. Our level of success is always going to parallel our level of personal development. Until we dedicate time each day to developing ourselves into the person we need to be to create the life we want, success is always going to be a struggle to attain.

  Hal Elrod

  Struggle, Reflection, Needs

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• It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.

  Katie Couric

  Love Is, Sweaters, People

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