Top 130 Parallel Quotes

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They’re really parallel.

The Chinese public is deeply nationalist, which matters to China’s unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American politicians. As China becomes the world’s largest economy, there is meaningful public pressure for its power status to advance in parallel. Any alternative would be humiliating.

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that I’m willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each other before many minutes have elapsed; but a man and a man will not do this, and even less so will a woman and a woman, for these are parallel lines which will never meet.

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

While many alternate reality stories ask, ‘What might have been?’ parallel universe stories literalize the war between good and evil that plays inside each of us every day. It’s what makes this type of story so perfect for many fantasy tales: we’re all just a coin flip away from being entirely different people.

Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today.

With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.

We are on parallel paths with the planet. The wants and needs of marine wildlife are our own: we want connection, companionship, a healthy clean environment.

Film festivals should also show commercial films along with parallel cinema. This is the only way that it could reach out to more people.

Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.

What artists are doing, and what people who are receiving the arts are doing, is entering into this agreement to occupy a parallel world. The parallel world is ever-expanding. We used to think that it existed only for people who were wealthy, well-born, or educated. It isn’t like that.

We got rid of parallel ports, the serial bus, floppy drives, physical keyboards on phones – do you miss the physical keyboards on your phone?

In the 80s, parallel cinema gained momentum. So, I got back to films and won National awards for Maqbool’ and other films.

Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.

One of the great things about ‘Jericho’ that is a parallel with ‘Over There’ is, in this country, we tend to forget the news we don’t want to know about. We’re so oversaturated with media and other images that we can turn our head a little bit.

The world of the small business owner is all about moving multiple items forward at once, and it’s a fool’s errand to believe one person can do it all when the shift comes from linear to parallel.

It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.

We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It’s an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.

Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last.

I was thinking of the parallel between the ocean, the life and the music. The ocean is everything. It’s calm, but brave – it’s life.

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power – a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

It’s weird to see the parallel between ‘Gilmore Girls’ and a lot of the Comic-Con-type, sci-fi-fantasy fans. In a weird way, even though ‘Gilmore Girls’ is not in that genre, the way the fandom conducts itself and has created this community is similar.

Containment doesn’t work. Containment does buy time. It could slow. It very well could slow the spread. But while you’re slowing the spread, you better be doing something in parallel to be prepared for when that virus breaks out.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

Unlike in the past, when acting in parallel cinema entailed hitting film festival circuits even not fully comprehending the story thread at times, directors are more intent to tailor present day films for the audiences, while introducing fresh concept and craft.

Although we have to do a tight three-point turn when leaving work, I pride myself on my driving skills. I’m not intimidated by a tight spot of parallel parking, passed my driving test first time and was always the designated driver in my group of friends.

I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.

You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.

At 16 I was very interested in palmistry. The fate line on my right palm broke into two parts that ran for a quarter of an inch on parallel tracks. I used to look at it and wonder, ‘What will happen?’

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm’s length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.

Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

None but himself can be his parallel.

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.

I’m very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

Want to train a machine translation system? Train it on a gazillion pairs of sentences of parallel corpora, and that creates a lot of breakthrough results. Increasingly, I’m seeing results on small data where you want to try to take in results even if you have 1,000 images.

Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie… that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

I want to have different Ferraris for different Ferraristi. We have a lot of parallel activities that can increase revenues without being obliged to produce more cars.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

Quantum computation is… a distinctively new way of harnessing nature… It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.