If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us, there is a scientific force that connects it all that we don't really know about.
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Related Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors. DEYTH BANGER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L... JOHN C. MAXWELL The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken. JOHN LEACH Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all ac... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as... DAVID BOWIE Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin. JENNIFER SCHMIDT All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know... WALTER MOSLEY I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can c... JIMMY CARTER The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message tha... JOEL SALATIN The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that w... TONY CAMPOLO Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live ... HAIM SHAPIRA Ah,” Sean said, smothering a laugh. “The brilliant plan falling apart? Wow. Wish I’d seen that... MAUREEN CHILD We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU YI think what's cool about 'Scott Pilgrim' is that it shows that there is a superhero wi... ELLEN WONG Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER To the voices in our heads that tell us we aren't good enough: do be quiet. CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just... KARL PILKINGTON Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON All's well that carries on well AMIT ABRAHAM What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER Do not let that game destroy your life. Get rid of it, get outside.. TREVON CLARK Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that charac... EMILY HILBURN SELL 15. “The love of money is the root of all evil” (1Timothy 6:10, KJV). That’s why Jesus issues ... JAMES C. DOBSON Embrace YOU...Believe in yourself, in this very moment...forgive yourself for all mistakes and 'bad'... ANGIE KARAN If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God. CRAIG GROESCHEL For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don'... HANS VESTBERG A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at ... LISA SEGER We all like going to the dark side of things; we all like dipping into worlds that we don't know... ANTONY STARR We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or somethi... JUDITH BUTLER We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies! ANTHONY T.HINCKS They're sensational! HARRY STYLES If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly. ANUJ SOMANY While majority find business in berating the spoilt brat “Problem” for distressing and disturbin... ANUJ SOMANY To be Thankful to someone who has helped change your life for ever is a small consolation for what t... GARY F EVANS... I need to learn bigger words and do those (things). GREAT APE I believe that all things are possible under God. BROOKE ELLIOTT When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there... BART STUPAK I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I'v... HELEN REDDY A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at ... LINDA SEGER It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If ev... AIMEE BENDER I guess the big thing is that I don't buy anything first-hand. It's a personal policy I have... EZRA MILLER I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity i... MISSY ELLIOTT Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could. MINORU YAMASAKI The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, a... RYAN GOSLING I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage... VALERIE HARPER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I wo... ANGELA RICHARDSON Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better. LYNDA HERNANDEZ The soul that is within me no man can degrade. FREDERICK DOUGLAS I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. KEANU REEVES Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their... EILEEN CADDY If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art... ANSARI No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ... EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices. J. PETIT-SENN You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really mat... TIFFANY GARLAND Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f... RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I have never been contained except I made the prison. MARY EVANS We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transf... ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Eve... DONALD JOHANSON Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK I don't aspire to be a sex icon, I don't know why anyone would. It's an uncomfortable po... BILLY HOWLE It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that is ... NANCY E. TURNER I'm really proud of being part of that whole geek/chic, girl nerds, glasses are sexy and all of ... KIRSTEN VANGSNESS The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don't think that we use that. We do... STEVE STOUTE God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but re... MAX LUCADO We came out and had a really good first inning and the bullpen came up big for us in that game like ... JAMES VILADE I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away - the all-knowing, all-seeing person who spe... ANDERSON COOPER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy. DAVID CHANG If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at a... COLUM MCCANN I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that ... JAMES DENTON So I don't really have much rivalry, or if there is any, I don't really know anything about ... EMILY BLUNT We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we ... STELLA YOUNG We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really ... KOBE BRYANT What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a forc... RAY CHARLES If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be litt... ORVILLE WRIGHT The one line that connects it all is the theme of myth and resurrection. DANIEL VALDEZ You Change , the things WHEN YOU let your thoughts be like the mind of Christ. DARIUSH YOUKHANEH There is no secret, once we go to qualifying, we all seem to enjoy it. Qualifying is all about putti... SEBASTIAN VETTEL I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don... DANNEL MALLOY Each of us know all there is to know about everything we want to know. TYLER J. HEBERT Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to sta... A. R. RAHMAN I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true. ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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GILBERT SELDES We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic... GILBERT GEORGE Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murd... GILBERT MURRAY When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the... GILBERT ARLAND The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way benea... GILBERT ADAIR Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideolo... GILBERT ADAIR If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my vo... GILBERT HARDING We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however v... GILBERT ADAIR I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day... ELIZABETH GILBERT My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complic... MELISSA GILBERT I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially intera... ELIZABETH GILBERT I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, ri... GILBERT GOTTFRIED When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept in... ELIZABETH GILBERT It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Pe... ELIZABETH GILBERT It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field c... WALTER GILBERT A good teacher is a determined person. GILBERT HIGHET Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. L... ELIZABETH GILBERT We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that. GILBERT BAKER If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a l... ELIZABETH GILBERT The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful... GILBERT BAKER I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black gu... GILBERT GOTTFRIED Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars. GILBERT PARKER A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits. GILBERT BAKER And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me fe... ELIZABETH GILBERT I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the... DANIEL GILBERT Tomorrow is no man's gift. GILBERT PARKER There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us,... GILBERT PARKER I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would exami... GILBERT GOTTFRIED I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a... ELIZABETH GILBERT Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But ... GILBERT MURRAY Some of the Park City kids said it was the best pipe of the Intermountain series. ANDREW GILBERT He had the run of his life. Smooth and big, with landings that were on the money. ANDREW GILBERT