Quotes About Connection

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

several old movies where the boy tossed pebbles at the girl's window. So I planned to use that approach. But

that window and to the right. I'd seen several old movies where the boy tossed pebbles at the girl's window. So I planned to use that approach. But I needed something more accurate, more effective. And

The charge that Trump colluded with the Russians to win the election, which he scoffed at, was, in the estimation of some of his friends, a perfect example of his inability to connect the dots.

while he was often most influenced by the last person he spoke to, he did not actually listen to anyone. So it was not so much the force of an individual argument or petition that moved him, but rather more just someone's presence, the connection of what was going through his mind—and although he was a person of many obsessions, much of what was on his mind had no fixed view—to whomever he was with and their views.

On the most basic level, he simply could not link cause and effect.

I do know Suzanne. She's a magazine editor who has recently acquired the digital faith. While sitting with her in the Harvard Club one day in the late 1980s, I told her that personal computers would connect us all and replace media as we know it and that we would all be in the computer business before we turned forty. I was teasing, of course. [Burn Rate]

I think of Maggie Haberman"—the New York Times reporter covering Trump—"the way I think of my grandmother," said Nunberg. "I always go running to her.

How we relate to God is generally how we relate to others.

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you." —Christian Morgenstern "Call

Anyone who never met a man he didn't like just isn't trying hard enough.

It doesn't upset me to think about dying. What upsets me is the idea of John being alone after his spell passes. The idea of one of us without the other. (p.127)

Hi lover," he says to me, completely forgetting what happened before. He knows who I am. He knows that I am the one person who he loves, has always loved. No disease, no person can take that away. (p.205)

It's not just about the words. It's about how music takes us out of ourselves, how it relieves our pains, lets loose something in our hearts, makes us feel better in ways we never knew we could.

L'ARBRE GEANT FREMISSAIT sous les coups de hache. A coté du colosse végétal, les hommes à la peau sombre, luisante de sueur, ressemblaient à des miniatures mouvantes. [...] La grande forêt pris le deuil. Les bruits les plus fantastiques se mirent à courir : on avait tué l'Arbre-Dieu.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterwards forms itself into laws

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

Everyone recognizes me in my book, and my book in me.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Coffee with a friend a day keeps the blues away

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.