Parallel Quotes

249 quotes by 227 authors

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness… — Robert Dale Owen
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel… — Steven Johnson
It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying,… — Susanna Kaysen
The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if… — Evelyn Underhill
There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done. — Hal Price
Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child. — Godfried Bomans
While I talked about comparisons between Cap and Cable, there's also a parallel with Tony Stark. Iron Man thinks of himself as a 'futurist,' Cable… — Jeph Loeb
As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet. — Andrew Marvell
There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing. — George Smoot
I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. — Douglas MacArthur
Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner… — Howard Gardner
The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so many… — Jonathan Schell
The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It was one of… — John Bruton
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the… — Abraham Kuyper
There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until… — Ann Rule
Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future.… — Eve Ensler
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in… — Michelle Alexander
In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff… — Paula Danziger
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with… — Bill Gaede
The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as an example of… — J. V. Cunningham

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