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Quotes About Intersection

Like accidents, marriages result because those involved happen to arrive at what might be the wrong place, at the same time.
~ Unknown
There is no longer: consciousness, projections, In itself or object. there are fields in intersection, in a field of fields.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Each one can be, according to the moment, I or You or They....Insofar as we live in language, we are not only I; we haunt all grammatical persons, as we are at their intersection, at their crossroads, at their tuft.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Sometimes it feels like life's about understanding how much opposites meet. Kill to cure, poison to immunize, sacrifice to save.
~ Megan Abbott
A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.
~ Michael Frayn
It also seems true that centers of creativity tend to be at the intersection of different cultures, where beliefs, lifestyles, and knowledge mingle and allow individuals to see new combinations of ideas with greater ease. In cultures that are uniform and rigid, it takes a greater investment of attention to achieve new ways of thinking. In other words, creativity is more likely in places where new ideas require less effort to be perceived.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.
~ Mitchell Kapor
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
~ Unknown
To understand life, people look at mountains and waves - this is romanticism. To understand life, you need to look at a busy intersection - this is realism. You look at the crossroads and think where they are all in a hurry, after all, they do not have time to live, they are in a hurry to do stupid things, they hurry to their graves.
~ Unknown
The Temple was, after all, the place where heaven and earth met. Why not say that one particular person might be the ultimate example of the same phenomenon, a person equally at home in both dimensions?
~ Unknown
When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
~ Nate Silver
principle of serendipitous confluence.
~ Neil Peart
In lower Manhattan there is an improbable point where Waverly Place intersects Waverly Place. It was there that I met Veronica, on a snowy, windy night.
~ Unknown
Everyone is from someplace. We all have stories, our lives unfolding along crooked lines, colliding in unexpected ways.
~ Noah Hawley
Everyone has their path. The choices they've made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same time is a mystery. You get on an elevator with a dozen strangers. You ride a bus, wait in line for the bathroom. It happens every day. To try to predict the places we'll go and the people we'll meet would be pointless.
~ Noah Hawley
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
~ Novalis
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
~ Octavio Paz
I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
~ Padma Lakshmi
we all live at the intersection of our small worlds and the big one around us. If we want to serve others, we must attend to both.
~ Parker J. Palmer
Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
Standing with reluctant feet, where the brook and river meet.
~ Patricia Wentworth
I'll see you where the roads meet.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Paths that cross will cross again.
~ Patti Smith
I tend to think that everything counts. In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.
~ Paul Auster