I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.
The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.
[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.
Parallel lines meet in eternity but Parallel lives meet for tea
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.
The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.
What happens is most of us are so busy in our lives with our families and our vocation which we should be, but we tend not to look at what I call these parallel interests, and they develop along the way. And sometimes one can say, well, you know, why should I grow my own garden and spend all that time when I can buy carrots cheaper at the supermarket and just put aside that kind of an interest.
Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.
I wrote the show West Wing for the two years before and the two years after 911. Suddenly everyone in the world had been through something that our characters had not been through; the whole trajectory of the world had changed. Yet our show took place in a parallel universe. I wasn't really sure what to do about this. In no one's wildest dreams did it occur that an event like this could possibly happen.
You can work well with people that you may not get on well with in life because it's a parallel realism.
I went out on my own, years ago, to try to create some additional choices in a parallel universe.
I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.
Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange - there could have been no development of economies beyond the most primitive organizational forms and the most geographically restricted sales.
To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.
But after that you don't see a lot of real good fundamental play. You see a showboat-type basketball which is almost parallel to street basketball.
Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.
Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.
The Red Army. . . swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.
The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.
Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.