Fortuitous Quote by Penelope Lively Download Open image “We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people.” — Penelope Lively ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fortuitous Links People Work
I think we all have the ability to tap into this inherent connection that really connects us all. — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives. — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin. — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Everyone you meet in your life - even total strangers - are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian.... It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,'… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view might be an interesting heresey. Shake… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“But her thoughts are often of the past. That evanescent, pervasive, slippery internal landscape known to no one else, that vast accretion of data… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village street of… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow flies, going… — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
It was very fortuitous that the show [True Detective] actually spans seventeen years - so as I was getting older on the show, I… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
I didn't start acting until I was 27, and that was just through Gary Shandling and Ben Stiller who I knew through stand-up. And… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that… — John Ray Copy Share Image
Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image