Alan Lightman on flood
Alan Lightman249 quotes“That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,”
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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AurthurAurthur There’s too much risk in loving,’ the young boy said, ‘no,’ said the old man, ‘there’s too much risk in not.
AtticusAtticus How can I be soft when tough love is all I ever known?
Ana DeeAna Dee Start believing that life is perfect, and time is life’s best friend.
Siza HewwitSiza Hewwit Longing made a home in my body.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch I give. And you take. So why are you always on my mind when I wake?
Outsourced FeelingsOutsourced Feelings She was an example of a monument that was filled with cold, non breathing steel elements but filled with elegance.
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At that moment He’ll flood your Life with His presence and power.
Alan RedpathAlan Redpath Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.
Alan LaddAlan Ladd Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
Aidan ChambersAidan Chambers They are simply not capable of promoting the indigenous economy. Many billions of dollars flooded into Afghanistan, but without any significant effect.
Ahmed RashidAhmed Rashid When by the flood of your tears, the inner and the outer have fused into One, you will find Her whom you sought with such anguish, nearer than the nearest, the very breath of life, the very core of every heart.
Anandamayi MaAnandamayi Ma Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.
Abbott Eliot KittredgeAbbott Eliot Kittredge And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison When first you enter Wisdom’s sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar
