Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES ...Teachings are given to different men under different circumstances and in different times... [but... CHRIS HEIMERDINGER There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have comm... M.F. MOONZAJER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence i... GUY FINLEY The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wr... C. JOYBELL C. Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Similar to siblings, French Fries all stem from the same family, the potato family. Yet each and eve... HANNAH HART Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the... SUZY KASSEM The North! the South! the West! the East!
No one the most and none the least,
But each with... EDMUND VANCE COOKE Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different jou... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which ... A. R. RAHMAN There's always pressure that way, with the alumni who played here. That's a given coming in. That ha... FRED SKROCKI Well, next to fingerprints, the ear is the best identifier. Each ear is different and there is only ... DINO BRUGIONI I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the n... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. Y... HUSTON SMITH But really, all we want, and I speak for the entire human race here, is contact. Someone to let us k... PLEASEFINDTHIS Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd th... MATT DAMON We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our liv... DAVID LEVITHAN If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a... ITALO CALVINO We’re all human, we should be respectful of others, and tolerant with each other. This matters mor... ANGELA NICOARA We are nothing alike, but exactly the same. KAYLA RAE People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are ... CRAIG BROWN To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel ... FERNANDO PESSOA That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely differen... RACHEL COHN In fact, the book shows that language is in a rough state of equilibrium: some words disappear and s... GUY DEUTSCHER Your past doesn't actually exist. What you think is your past is a tiny blip of electricity in your ... DAN PEARCE When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, ar... ABRAHAM LINCOLN For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'toda... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO She was thinking how all those paths and the lawn, thick and knotted with the lives they had lived t... VIRGINIA WOOLF Finalement, ce n'est peut-être pas la corruption ni l'avidité qui rend lâche. Peut-être n'est-ce... ANN BRASHARES Jeżeli chce się żyć każdą nadarzającą się chwilą, trzeba umierać dla każdej innej chwili... ALDOUS HUXLEY Of course we have a Tomorrow on the map…located east of Today and west of Yesterday…and we have ... L.M. MONTGOMERY We are all different. No one can be the same. FRANCISCO ESCANDON He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange... DAVID DUCHOVNY In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and... RABINDRANATH TAGORE Christ is the eternal Son of God, and He is in His divine attributes the same yesterday and today an... WILLIAM HENRY FROST I probably won’t play a song the same way tomorrow as I play it today. Only a pitchman says the sa... ANTON SZANDOR LAVEY Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. Ther... MAHATMA GANDHI You can't go east and west at the same time, JEAN CHAREST There were a number of factors that combined to make that less an optimum situation. Those are all r... MITCH DORGER Perfectly Imperfect We have all heard that no two snowflakes are alike. Each snowflake ta... STEVE MARABOLI Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, ... RABIH ALAMEDDINE Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he... RAMANA MAHARSHI You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Though the cards may look slightly different, and be in a totally different language, they function ... DAVID ONG We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost memories? Then are we not ... NATHAN REESE MAHER The you you are now is the same you I was in love with yesterday and the same you i'll be in love wi... GAYLE FOREMAN It is a truism, easily forgotten, that the West, in its modern phase, has not stood still. Also easi... PAUL A. COHEN Today is a fantasy for tomorrow has gone and yesterday is here! MUNIA KHAN Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex... KATE GRENVILLE ...The men of those days...were absolutely not the same people that we are now; it was not the same ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get on... RANDY HOUSER I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW The differences between East and West seem to have been continually on the increase, but this diverg... RENé GUéNON As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eterna... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. When I worked in Ames at the recycling center we had two containers - pop cans and two-liter bottles... MARI VANDERWAL Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's th... EBEN ALEXANDER A clock that is moving through space at a very fast speed does not tick at the same rate as a slow-m... CHRISTOPHE GALFARD When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francoi... EDI RAMA If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Tor... DAVID NOVAK Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark... MURRAY N. ROTHBARD Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did s... ROGER MOORE The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Its authority is lost. In its place there is a ... JOHN BERGER When all of us are united on an issue, then one of two things has happened. Either the earth has spu... BRENT BOZELL It turns out to be a sick sound. Every member of the band has their main instrument and one or two o... MARC FRIEDMAN The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a p... SIMON BARNES It may well be that we go in different phases in different places. There is no reason why we would h... HAZEL BLEARS Our probable ancestors, Homo erectus and Homo habilis -now extinct- are classified as of the same ge... CARL SAGAN We are the same, and we are different. We are the same because we all are members of the same human ... JONATHAN CHEN We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between... SUE AUGUSTINE Everybody has been stepping up at any given time to get it done. If you look at our box score it's n... HOLLY VAN VLYMEN I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you... LAUREN OLIVER To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal an... JUDITH MARTIN It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI It might be asked, 'How much time shall I allow myself for rest?' The answer is that no rule... GEORGE MULLER There is light in the shadow just as there is shadow in the light and although many disclaim these s... KENSI BRIANNE SMITH What they're doing is simply using our fax and voice broadcasting systems to deliver one message to ... STEVE ADAMS No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different g... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the... PAULO COELHO We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is ... PARMENIDES oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- ... BARBARA BLATNER I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference... BARBARA BLATNER ...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, ... BARBARA BLATNER There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is ... AARON COPLAND The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS
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