Quotes About Confluence

#1. Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?

Thomas Carlyle

#2. Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps
located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.

Eric Weiner

#3. People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.

Clement Mok

#4. The confluence of people, smells and tastes that you are privy to merely by eating on the street is very special. And it is not something that can be replicated indoors. If food is a lens through which to see the world, a seat at one of those tiny tables offers the best view.

Jodi Ettenberg

#5. What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks.

Michael J. Saylor

#6. The irritating question they ask us
us being writers
is: "Where do you get your ideas?"
And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra!

Neil Gaiman

#7. Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.

Ridley Scott

#8. Har-ki-doon was situated on the northeast end of the Tons River Valley in Uttaranchal, India. A stunning piece of highland at the confluence of a trio of glaciers, it displayed in every direction the magnificence of the Himalayan Mountains -

Falguni Kothari

#9. Im very disappointed that we missed our (earnings per share) growth target this quarter due to the confluence of a number of issues that we now understand and are urgently addressing. I accept full responsibility for the shortfall.

Carly Fiorina

#10. The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters, and events that shape the stories of our lives.

Deepak Chopra

#11. I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.

Mike DeGruy

#12. Conflict will end, pollution will end, anxiety will end, frontiers and divisions will end. Then love will rise, confluence will rise and harmony will rise, a new revolution will rise, And humans will then begin to thrive.

G.R.K. Reddy

#13. By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

Jesmyn Ward

#14. It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

Paul Davies

#15. It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

Michael Bolton

#16. It seemed to me that in this confluence of cultures we had acquired one another's superstitions without necessarily any of their comforts.

Yangsze Choo

#17. I am passionate about exploring the confluence of environmental and human health. I believe that the goals of conservation must constantly revisit a stated purpose.

Barton Seaver

#18. In some stages in life, some individuals decide only to chose every hard option to achieve. His/her life turns onto confluence of challenges influenced only by destiny ... in which only few decide to accept because it is a matter of existence to them.

Sameh Elsayed

#19. Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#20. Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.

Mark Shields

#21. We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

Thabo Mbeki

#22. State fairs are the confluence of the garish and the profound.

Douglas Wissing

#23. Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

Roselee Goldberg

#24. Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.

Timothy Geithner

#25. The quintessential good and beauty in life is what each has to offer to others valuing the gesture ourselves into confluence with the Word of God.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#26. Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.

Jonathan Tropper

#27. I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.

Peter Landesman

#28. To listen to the nation's psychiatric gurus is to come to believe that crimes are caused, not committed. Perpetrators don't do the crime, but are driven to their dirty deeds by a confluence of uncontrollable factors, victims of societal forces or organic brain disease.

Ilana Mercer

#29. I should think a poet president would be able to create a delectable confluence of various spaces. A poet is most political.

Meia Geddes

#30. I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

Peter Coyote

#31. Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove

Dan Skinner

#32. Rabies coevolved to live in the dog, and the dog coevolved to live with us - and this confluence, the three of us, is far too combustible a thing.

Bill Wasik

#33. It was even said that some birds spring to life in the tension of accidental chords being struck in the ether, a confluence of arbitrary sound waves from unrelated sources: a piano, a truck, a breaking bottle---a bird.

Carl Watson

#34. You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

Walter Isaacson

#35. The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

Martha Grimes

#36. A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?

Jacqueline Carey

#37. I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me.

Stewart Butterfield

#38. Rock and roll was a good way to, to first recognize the, the confluence of white artists with it but also to kind of pretty it up a little bit, clean it up a little bit, make it more acceptable to, to people.

Cosimo Matassa

#39. We will be looking at things like the confluence of a scene, and we still have all these creative decisions to make. In general, we're going to just try to make these under a half-hour. We're going to try to take that kind of cable TV comedy model.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#40. I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.

Daniel Sunjata

#41. Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence.

Karl Deutsch

#42. It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to capitalize on.

Jeff Vespa

#43. A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

Michael Morpurgo

#44. Explore your untamed dreams and you just might find a unique place where a confluence of paths lead towards your destiny.

Kathy Goodhew

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

Anton Chekhov