Parallel Lives Quotes

#1. If this succeeds, he can be induced to live, as I have known many humans live, for quite long periods, two parallel lives; he will not only appear to be, but actually be, a different man in each of the circles he frequents.

C.S. Lewis

#2. Her tears and my soul, they live parallel lives. Run, ache, burn. Repeat. Her tears and my soul, they live parallel lives. - BENTON JAMES KESSLER

Colleen Hoover

#3. I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

Alice Walker

#4. There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

Rigoberta Menchu

#5. There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.

Ann Rule

#6. Perhaps if there were more time, or if time were more malleable; if she could be both places at once, live parallel lives

Jennifer E. Smith

#7. If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

Norman Spinrad

#8. We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush.

Gore Vidal

#9. Parallel lines meet in eternity but
Parallel lives meet for tea

Gary Gach

#10. Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

John Milton

#11. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits,

N.D. Wilson

#12. Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives next to us. Nor do we suspect the carrier.

Kris Courtney

#13. Providence has a curious way of letting two lives run along, each apparently independent of the other. Parallel lines they seem, hopeless of meeting. Converging lines really, destined, through long ages, by every deed that has been done to meet as a certain point and there fuse.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#14. Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.

Milan Kundera

#15. I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is to say I hear a lot of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder.

Jason Robert Brown

#16. No philosopher who was really philosophical could think anything except that, in that central sea, the wave of the world had risen to its highest, seeming to touch the stars. But the wave was already stooping; for it was only the wave of the world. That

G.K. Chesterton

#17. Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and backpacks, and Sony personal CD players and head for school.

Naomi Klein

#18. There is something divine, something artistic, and something supreme in reading a book in a peaceful garden.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don't happen, the lives not lived, the wars not fought, the shadow worlds that run parallel to the world we take to be the real world, the not-said and the not-done, the not-remembered.

Paul Auster

#20. Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and kindly receives them, and dedicates them to the Father by a solemn act of blessing.

John Calvin

#21. This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#22. The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#23. The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.

Samuel Johnson

#24. Your dreams don't have an expiration date.

Kyle Robertson

#25. The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

Henry David Thoreau

#26. It feels like forever, like he's lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused.

Barbara Delinsky

#27. It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.

Liz Curtis Higgs

#28. There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternate choice has been made, or an accident has turned out differently. Everyone has duplicates of themselves in these other worlds. Different selves with different lives, different luck.
Variations.

E. Lockheart

#29. All beyond this is portentous and fabulous, inhabited by poets and mythologers, and there is nothing true or certain.

Plutarch

#30. We may not have known each other our whole lives but we've definitely lived them in parallel

Fisher Amelie

#31. The fact that you woke up this morning is proof that this day has already been predetermined in your favor.

Russell Kyle

#32. The people are suffering. Relieving people's poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#33. Hardly anybody," he said, "understands how essential shit is to holding things together.

Jane Urquhart

#34. I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

Dave Eggers