"For it is only habit and memory that……" — Alan Lightman
"For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first."
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65 Quotes by Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman has 65 quotes on this site.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on…
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as…
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back…
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished…
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is…
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in…
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn…
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We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of…
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile…
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More Dulls Quotes
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one of 33 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
— Frank Leahy
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A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to…
— Fran Tarkenton
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The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust…
— Unknown Author
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If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. ...…
— Daniel H. Pink
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Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of…
— Barbara Johnson
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Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.
— Mary Daly
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The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying the things you do not have to say…
— William Stafford
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I have my misgivings about 3-D. I don't like the lack of blacks and whites, how it dulls the image,…
— Alfonso Cuaron
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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