Converged Quotes

#1. Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porter

#2. A profile was visible against the dull monochrome of cloud around her; and it was as though side shadows from the features of Sappho and Mrs. Siddons had converged upwards from the tomb to form an image like neither but suggesting both.

Thomas Hardy

#3. And then he was suddenly overwhelmed. It was as if a thousand bolts of lightning had converged to lift him. All he could see was blue, electric blue, wet shining warm blue, blue to no end, everywhere, blue that glowed and made him cry out, blue, blue, her eyes were blue.

Mark Helprin

#4. We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.

Eskinder Nega

#5. Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

Arthur Levitt

#6. Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.

Francois Hollande

#7. For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.

Roberto Bolano

#8. Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. In the Venn diagram of my life, my imagined personality and my real personality have never converged. Over email and text, though, I am given those few additional beats I need to be the better, edited version of myself. To

Julie Buxbaum

#10. As soon as the engagement was announced, the Pack Clans converged and shot the idea of a quiet ceremony out of the water and then kept firing at it until it stopped convulsing and died.

Ilona Andrews

#11. It hit me right there and then that these antifragile hormetic responses were just a form of redundancy, and all the ideas of Mother Nature converged in my mind. It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.

Thomas Friedman

#13. You said capitalism was an inevitability. That human civilizations converged on it. Because it was an effective algorithm to distribute resources and organize labor.

Neil Clarke

#14. The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

Ben Carson

#15. The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.

Evangeline Lilly

#16. I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood; I guess it was goat's blood or something, on the steps to the Pentagon. People were being accused of being murderers and baby killers. You just can't imagine the civic outrage.

Wesley Clark

#17. His point, again and again, was that truth wasn't the property of any one faith and that, if you looked closely, you found a ground where they all converged.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#18. They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.

Salman Rushdie

#19. Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

Charles Stross

#20. Grey is the shade of life, like shadows.

Aporva Kala

#21. I don't think I could ever go skinny. I just don't think, physiologically, that is going to happen. I do eat healthily for a week, and then I go, 'Nah, they have these beautiful ice-cream sandwiches.' I don't think my emotional eating is ever going to change.

Rebel Wilson

#22. You should write a novel." "Me? Write a novel?" "Well, you do read a lot of them." "And you eat a lot of candy bars, but I don't see you running out to hire a bunch of Oompa-Loompas and starting a chocolate factory.

Tammy Blackwell

#23. I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just ... way out cool.

David Lynch

#24. Yes, I do know how I survive
Yes, I do know why I'm alive

Donna Summer

#25. The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.

David Prowse

#26. Love makes the journey we call life worthwhile.

Debasish Mridha

#27. Womanliness means only motherhood;
All love begins and ends there.

Robert Browning

#28. Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

Dylan Moran

#29. This is my secret
that any moment I might fly away. Everyone on earth but me
and now Violet
moves in slow motion, like they're filled with mud. We are faster than all of them.

Jennifer Niven

#30. There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

James Goodnight

#31. I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.

Michael Scott

#32. If 'one' really were the sufferer or the enjoyer, then he would get tired. But the Self in reality is not experiencing anything. He simply does egoism only.

Dada Bhagwan