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Quotes About Confluence

I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.
~ Jeff Zucker
Worship that is properly understood and properly given is co-extensive with life… It informs all of life, everything we do and everything we say and think. At its core it is the sense and service of God. Worship brings into confluence all the questions and answers that we have and do not have.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Long a student and admirer of the American West, its history, its art, its culture, its cast of personalities, I'm aware that in the West a great confluence of events and people combined to create something unique in the annals of human history.
~ Philip Anschutz
Action and knowledge are not obstacles to each other.
~ Ramana Maharshi
I have a conflicted view on beer styles. As historical artifacts, they're endlessly fascinating to study. And I think that they generally represent confluences -- and compromises -- of technology, agriculture, cuisine, and geology that make the most of what a region has to offer. That means existing styles are usually quite wonderful to drink, and I'm all for that.
~ Randy Mosher
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
~ Thabo Mbeki
The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.
~ Martha Grimes
It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to capitalize on.
~ Jeff Vespa
The Ratignolles understood each other perfectly. If ever the fusion of two human beings into one has been accomplished on this sphere it was surely in their union.
~ Kate Chopin
I could walk into a wooded area and pinpoint within a foot any body he'd left there. I noticed this because my area of expertise was modeling how different systems stake out and create their own ecosystems. I use the term system because sometimes it's a confluence of organisms working together—in their own interests—yet yielding a mutual benefit. The shape of a thing isn't always the thing.
~ Andrew Mayne
Een ding is het snijpunt van drie lijnen en die drie lijnen samen vormen het ding: een hoeveelheid materie, de wijze waarop wij die interpreteren, en de omgeving waarin ze zich bevindt.
~ Fernando Pessoa
beyond the confluence lies the wilderness of the Needles country, known to only a few cowboys and uranium prospectors; on the west side of the junction is another labyrinth of canyons, pinnacles and fins of naked stone, known to even fewer, closer than anything else in the forty-eight United States to being genuine terra incognita—The Maze.
~ Edward Abbey
This is truly a malfunction of the imagination, and it explains the confluence of the creative and depressive we so often see within the same person, even within the same hour.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
Everything only connected by "and" and "and."
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Everything only connected by "and" and "and.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Communication is like that secret ingredient that brings out the flavor of all the other ingredients.
~ Ava Cadell
And the truth has made us one.
~ Barbara Steiner
A confluence. Something underestimated that's found its power. And she will remember this day with the birds in the sky, that sometimes you must stop and look up because magic exists whether you see it or not, and it's so much better to get the glimpse. And so she will.
~ Gian Sardar
Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.
~ Jonathan Tropper
I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me.
~ Stewart Butterfield
In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves.
~ John Gregory Dunne
Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?
~ Khalil Gibran
When they put us together, it was like chocolate and peanut butter. You put us together, and it made a Reese's Cup.
~ Bill Schroeder
May the inward and outward man be as one.
~ Socrates