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  • Friends are an intersection. A route back to the world.

  • It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite sides respectively.

    Archimedes (2007). “The Works of Archimedes”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.
  • To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

    Mean   Awful   Social  
    Peter L. Berger (1973). “Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective”, Overlook Pr
  • To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of depression and anxiety is that intersection between optimism and curiosity. Because it means taking a step forward with the hope that there will be discovery.

    "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.
  • I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

    Hurt   Light   Order  
    "Jack Anderson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist, Dies at 83". www.foxnews.com. December 17, 2005.
  • ... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

  • A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

    Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

  • The thing my father was proudest of was the Ayres clock at the intersection of Washington Street and Meridian. That made him so happy. Ayres complained because he wouldn't send them a bill. There was stuff my family had done there - particularly my father and grandfather - that was quite permanent and wonderful.

    Father   Done   Bills  
  • At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

  • I am very much into politics, but what interests me is sacred principles applied to that area. You know, many people are interested in alternative health who are never going to become doctors, or practitioners. That is how I am about politics. I am interested in the intersection of the Spiritual and the political - how spiritual principles apply to the social and political issues of our day. For me, the spiritual realm, is a more powerful place to speak from on those issues.

    "An Interview With Marianne Williamson Spiritual Leader And Author". Interview with Maryel McKinley, www.awarenessmag.com. May 2000.
  • From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a writer's thought.

    Writing   Past   Views  
  • The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning....the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event... both coming together shall represent a Human Being...the intersection of life and consciousness.

  • The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

    Stars   Home   Sleep  
    Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.167, Univ of California Press
  • The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.

    War   Civilization   Self  
  • People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and then act on them. That's one of the most powerful things we have as a community: our culture and our art. And it's the intersection between life and how people deal with life. It's the most important thing we do.

    Art   Powerful   People  
    "The Wire's Wendell Pierce on art, New Orleans, and his crush on Janet Jackson". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2015.
  • When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do things that were not like publishing or television, or computers, but were some intersection of those and that got known to be convergence, so between the switching, or trading of places and the convergence, you have today's media.

    Zero   Media   Way  
    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
  • There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.

    Source: www.skyword.com
  • I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem - just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.

    Source: criticalflame.org
  • Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

    Art   Jobs   Technology  
  • Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

  • In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

    Events   Purpose   Facts  
    Paul Auster (1988). “The locked room”, Penguin Group USA
  • Every friend whom not thy fantastic will but the great and tender heart in thee craveth, shall lock thee in his embrace. And this because the heart in thee is the heart of all; not a valve, not a wall, not an intersection is there anywhere in nature, but one blood rolls uninterruptedly in endless circulation through all men, as the water of the globe is all one sea, and, truly seen, its tide is one.

    Wall   Heart   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.399, Library of America
  • The CEO should ask what he or she can do to raise the organization's curiosity quotient. One way to do this is to seek to learn more about current or prospective customers, not to figure out which segmentation model to slot them into, but to really understand them as human beings. Another is to live at the intersections where innovation magic occurs.

    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • The cross of Jesus Christ represents the intersection of God's love and God's holiness.

    Jesus   Holiness   Christ  
    Source: www.biblegateway.com
  • Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

    Lying   Joy   Needs  
  • Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

    Art   Land   Organization  
  • If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.

    Children   Circles   Two  
  • The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

    David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.19, Egmont UK
  • A U. S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.

    Team   Boys   Ideas  
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