Coherent Quotes

149 quotes by 138 authors

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation… — Herbert Spencer
He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with… — Kim Edwards
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers… — W. Somerset Maugham
Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs… — A. S. Byatt
She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that… — Robin McKinley
All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the… — Marya Hornbacher
Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality,… — Salman Rushdie
Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at… — Erma Bombeck
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's… — Anne Rice
Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals. — Yann Martel
It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
If he'd looked like a cross between Mr. Clooney and, say, one of the hobbits, I probably would have been far more capable of coherent… — Ally Carter
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beautyâ€”by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.â€”to forms that… — Werner Heisenberg
The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universeâ€”even a positivist oneâ€”remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent,… — Chaim Potok
Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and… — Christopher Paolini
I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to… — Neil Postman
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through… — Charles Dickens
My last coherent thought, as Lucas took his time kissing and touching every part of me he could reach and my body arched into his,… — Tammara Webber
He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought. — Darynda Jones

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