Best Disparate Quotes
68 Disparate quotes by 64 unique authors
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In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and…
— Thomas Sowell
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I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its…
— Wallace Stevens
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The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy…
— Martha Plimpton
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In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.
— Graca Machel
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Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.
— James Cameron
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It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what…
— Marya Hornbacher
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All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.
— Maureen Corrigan
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And most of all, it means continually drawing connections among these seemingly disparate struggles—asserting, for instance, that the logic that would cut pensions, food stamps,…
— Naomi Klein
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Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at…
— Daniel H. Pink
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In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams…
— Tom Hiddleston
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Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys.…
— Moby
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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I…
— Jeanette Winterson
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of…
— Joan Didion
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Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies,…
— Dan Brown
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Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
— Toni Morrison
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I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are…
— Muriel Barbery
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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
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Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not…
— Reif Larsen
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which…
— Joan Didion
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People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are…
— Alain de Botton
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When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways…
— Christina Baker Kline
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