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Quotes About Simultaneity

The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.
~ Robert Delaunay
It was this other side of Avery - the fact that he so visibly had an other side - that was helping me finally understand all three of the dimensions in Kafka: that a man could be a sweet, sympathetic, comically needy victim and a lascivious, self-aggrandizing, grudge-bearing bore, and also, crucially, a third thing: a flickering consciousness, a simultaneity of culpable urge and poignant self-reproach, a person in process.
~ Jonathan Franzen
other and often occur simultaneously.
~ Alan Downs
The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of unlimited life at a single moment.
~ Boethius
A duration is a concrete slab of nature limited by simultaneity which is an essential factor disclosed in sense-awareness.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Every corner of the globe, with its different activities, touched their hearts and minds with interest—busy, rushing life in various forms, and all going on simultaneously, at this moment—now. Life obviously was one. The strange unity was convincing. Nothing they saw was alien to themselves, for they took part in it.
~ Algernon Blackwood
and we're both dead at the same time.
~ Alice Notley
L'amore riunisce la certezza e il dubbio: si è sicuri di essere amati tanto quanto se ne dubita, e non a momenti alterni, ma in una simultaneità sconcertante. Provare a sbarazzarsi di questa sfumatura dubitativa facendo mille domande alla propria amata, significa negare la natura radicalmente ambigua dell'amore.
~ Amelie Nothomb
hurry" was not a concept that could be symbolized in the Martian language and therefore must be presumed to be unthinkable. Speed, velocity, simultaneity, acceleration, and other mathematical abstractions having to do with the pattern of eternity were part of Martian mathematics, but not of Martian emotion.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
In physics: It's called simultaneity. In music: rhythm. In your life: epic failure.
~ Laura Dave
Electric light, the first reliable internal combustion engine, and wireless transmission were all invented within the same three-month period at the end of 1879. Within
~ Robert J. Gordon
Life is not "either or," it's "both and"
~ Royce White
I think God gives you all good things at the same time.
~ Ram Charan
Sometimes I wish I could clone myself, you know, be in two places at once.
~ Peter Kay
There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.
~ Lee Smolin
very close at hand, and at the same
~ Rosie Thomas
The lenses of telescopes and cameras can no more cover the breadth and scale of the visual array than language can cover the breadth and simultaneity of internal experience.
~ Annie Dillard
Don't think more further, Try to do simultaneously
~ Azhar Sabri
It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.
~ Sigourney Weaver
One of the things I think is true, which is a way of thinking about the afterlife of slavery in regard to how we inhabit historical time, is the sense of temporal entanglement, where the past, the present and the future, are not discrete and cut off from one another, but rather that we live the simultaneity of that entanglement. This is almost common sense to Black folk. How does one narrate that?
~ Saidiya Hartman
Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly.
~ Paul Klee
As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road.
~ Tom Brevoort
My personal belief is that everything is always happening all at once.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt