Confluences Quotes

#1. There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.

Anton Chekhov

#2. Religions are confluences of organic-cultural flows that intensify joy and confront suffering by drawing on human and supra-human forces to make homes and cross boundaries.(p. 54)

Thomas A. Tweed

#3. Anything can be painted without representation.

Agnes Martin

#4. If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress." She fixed him with a look. "Do you understand?

Cassandra Clare

#5. her knees, which looked, in the faint blue light, as though they'd been carved by water from a bar of soap.

Charles D'Ambrosio

#6. But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

Muhammad Yunus

#7. Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.

Alistair MacLeod

#8. I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work.

Kurt Russell

#9. Religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

Karen Armstrong

#10. the heroic spirit of responsibility amid blood and failure. This struck me as the true image of a doctor.

Paul Kalanithi

#11. Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.

Irvine Welsh

#12. Let's go old school to impress people. Wear a smile, rather than a branded dress. Crease out our differences with understanding. And, use empathy, care, and patience as accessories. Then, let's make a conversation, not talk.
Ah, what a fine world it would be! Fine, pure and minus artifice.

Saru Singhal

#13. The great authors share their souls with us- literally.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. For love to be forever, first it must be true.

Moffat Machingura