Cohere Quotes

#1. A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul. A poem struggles to orchestrate, prioritize, cohere, and coordinate these potentially shattering forces.

Tony Hoagland

#2. I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.

Ann Brashares

#3. Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself.

Marcus Aurelius

#4. [ ... ] I finally understood that death and numbers don't cohere. Everyone is 'one.' An accident report might say that nine died, four of them in their teens, but each death was 'one.' Each of six million Jews was 'one.' With death it is a series of 'ones.

Jim Harrison

#5. But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.

Ann Brashares

#6. For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

Rachel Kushner

#7. To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people.

Nelson Mandela

#9. The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.

Brian Eno

#10. Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton

#11. Basilicas should be constructed on a site adjoining the forum and in the warmest possible quarter, so that in winter business men may gather in them without being troubled by the weather.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#12. Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

Vikas Swarup

#13. I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

Sonny Bono

#14. When fans get very passionate about a movie, they just want you to do it well. They don't want you to screw it up. Their idea of doing it well might be different than yours, but ultimately, they really just don't want you to mess up the thing that they love.

Nina Jacobson

#15. As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.

Barry Webster

#16. The message couldn't have been clearer: women may rise to the top, but they must seem as though they don't care whether they win or lose. Nice girls care only about being nice. They win only by accident or by someone else's efforts.

Susan Shapiro Barash

#17. Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.

Jimmy Buffett

#18. Sometimes feelings are like that - not positive, not negative, just a lot.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#19. I got older - 16, 17 - I was like, "I want to do my own thing." I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn't what they wanted for me.

Fetty Wap

#20. My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

Zoe Kravitz

#21. Humans pull together in an odd way when they're in the wilderness. It's astonishing how few people litter and how much they help one another. Indeed, the smartphone app to navigate the Pacific Crest Trail, Halfmile, is a labor of love by hikers who make it available as a free download.

Nicholas Kristof

#22. Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.

Pico Iyer