"Suppose time is a circle, bending back on……" — Alan Lightman
"Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly."
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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 Bending Quotes
This quote is filed under Bending Quotes,
one of 133 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
— Aesop
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I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out…
— Sandra Bullock
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The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the…
— William Jenkyn
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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems…
— Auguste Rodin
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Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief…
— Sarah Fielding
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I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is…
— Joanna Lumley
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Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
— Sun Tzu
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We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.
— Rahm Emanuel
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Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one…
— David Anthony Durham
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Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy…
— Norman Grubb
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion…
— Nadine Gordimer
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Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence…
— Wallace Stevens
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