Contracted Phase Quotes & Sayings

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive. — Maggie Stiefvater

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. — Van Morrison

Find some time to seclude yourself from the fuss of life and be face to face with yourself and God — Sunday Adelaja

Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know. — Laurie Nadel

At first, I believed that disorder would decrease when the universe recollapsed. This was because I thought that the universe had to return to a smooth and ordered state when it became small again. This would mean that the contracting phase would be like the time reverse of the expanding phase. People in the contracting phase would live their lives backward: they would die before they were born and get younger as the universe contracted. — Stephen Hawking

I always work from an outline. — Sarah Mlynowski

Just thinking "What if?" can create a huge drama in our lives. — Miguel Ruiz

One is congenitally a woman; one tries not to be, but it's a question of one's humanity. — Malcolm Bradbury

Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you don't centralize power, you have the risk of losing the country. — Anatoly Karpov