Dava Sobel quotes

Dava Sobel quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able.”
-- Dava Sobel

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“Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.”
-- Dava Sobel

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“Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.384, eBookIt.com
“Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.”
“And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1857). “Poems of the Orient”, p.20
“I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.”
“I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.”
“The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.”
“You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.”
“Our breath, like our heartbeat, is the most reliable rhythm in our lives. When we become attuned to this constant rhythm, our breath can gradually teach us to come back to the original silence of the mind.”
“I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.”

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