Overlapping Quotes

• I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

  Ani DiFranco

  Strength, Individual Differences, Diversity

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• My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

  Mary Garden

  Block, Two, Discipline

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• With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Discipline, Coherence, Facts

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• If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.24, BookBaby

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• Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.

  Annie Dillard

  Space, Landscape, Moments

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.139, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Serendipity, Done, Lines

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.217, St. Martin's Griffin

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• There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.

  Anabel Jensen

  Mixing, Emotion, Hundred

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• Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

  Rex Brandt

  Perspective, Depth, Shapes

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• The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.

  Masaru Emoto

  Symphony, Results, Proportion

  Masaru Emoto (2011). “The Hidden Messages in Water”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

  Barack Obama

  America, Justice, Mind Blowing

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we will make something of our lives. what if we are so busy searching for worth that we miss the sapphire sky and cackling blackbird. what else is missing? maybe our steps are too straight and our paths too narrow and not overlapping. maybe when they overlap someone in another country lights a candle, a couple resolves their argument, a young man puts down his silver gun and walks away.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Country, Couple, Ignorance

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• Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

  Edgar Degas

  Real, Communication, Half

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• They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.

  A. S. Byatt

  Beach, Dark, Night

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from May 22, 2013

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• By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

  C. Wright Mills

  Military, Power, Circles

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.18, Oxford University Press

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• A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular species is destroyed by a severe disturbance so that a link in the network is broken, a diverse community will be able to survive and reorganize itself... In other words, the more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

  Fritjof Capra

  Ecosystems, Broken, Community

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• The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Metamorphosis, Photograph, Overtaking

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Galen A. Johnson, Michael B. Smith (1993). “The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting”, p.145, Northwestern University Press

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• But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

  Lawrence Durrell

  Events, Baskets, Crabs

  1958 Balthazar, pt.1.

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• I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.

  Anna Kavan

  Feelings, Confusing, Curious

  Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”

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• Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Book, Dark, Sea

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.266, Random House

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• Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

  David Eagleman

  Choices, Brain, Democracy

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.

  Tony Kushner

  Nashville, Stories, Influence

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• San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

  Christopher Moore

  Beautiful, Dark, Light

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• Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

  Annie Dillard

  Time, Children, Ascending

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.77, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search... I think of Google as an advertising company who services the broader advertising industry in the ways that you know.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, Google, Fundamentals

  "Google CEO Eric Schmidt Interview: His Thoughts On Search, Books, News, Mobile, Competition And More". Interview with Michael Arrington, techcrunch.com. August 31, 2009.

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• I've got an efficiency and a guerrilla approach ... plus a unique synergy where everything I do helps everything else because it's overlapping.

  Rick Steves

  Unique, Helping, Efficiency

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