Quotes About Conjunction

The conjunction of the day and the night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. The mind remains pure at this time.

Everything only connected by "and" and "and."

Everything only connected by "and" and "and.

Il a suffi, il a presque suffi, un jour de mai où il faisait trop chaud, de l'inopportune conjonction d'un text dont tu avais perdu le fil, d'un bol de Nescafé au goût soudain trop amer [...]

Intuitive probability is driven by imaginability: the easier something is to visualize, the likelier it seems. This entraps us into what Tversky and Kahneman call the conjunction fallacy, in which a conjunction is more intuitively probable than either of its elements.

Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.

No aceptamos el azar en nuestro día a día cuando es demasiado caprichoso. Pero en cambio lo aceptamos en el universo y en la formación de la vida, que depende de una conjunción de elementos infinítamente más caprichosa.

The job of a subordinating conjunction is (drum roll, please) to subordinate. It relegates a clause to a lower grammatical status in the sentence.

All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of solitude. She closed her eyes and listened to the sound of a hunting horn coming from the depths of distant forests. There were paths in those forests...

What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to last, only to be valued and its lesson taken to heart.

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

Why do I get the feeling, interjected Cheops, that shit and fan are moving into conjunction, and that we might be in the way?

I'm a Leo, with an Aquarian mid-heaven, so I can be mistaken for an Aquarius. My Sun-Uranus conjunction in Leo makes me an honorary Aquarian anyway.

But manners there be of our conjunction three, The first is called by Philosophers diptative, The which betwixt the agent and patient must be, Male and female, mercury, and sulphur vive Matter and form, thin and thick to thrive, This lesson will help thee without any doubt, And our conjunction truly to bring about.

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

drugs work only if there's a physical problem. All the increased blood flow in the world won't solve an emotional problem. In any sexual response, the mind has to work in conjunction with the body.

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

What constitutes a problem is not the thing, or the environment where we find the thing, but the conjunction of the two; something unexpected in a usual place (our favourite aunt in our favourite poker parlour) or something usual in an unexpected place (our favourite poker in our favourite aunt).

In the Bible, nearly each time the virtue of courage appears (about twenty-five times), it is often in conjunction with the words strong or strength. The two are intertwined throughout the Bible and throughout society, so much so that the word courage in sign language is two clenched fists.

Two facts related by time and place and not necessarily related by cause and effect.

When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.

Amos and I introduced the idea of a conjunction fallacy, which people commit when they judge a conjunction of two events (here, bank teller and feminist) to be more probable than one of the events (bank teller) in a direct comparison.