Fragmented Quotes · Page 3

If you're living in a community that's become fragmented and left behind, there's not proper investment in it and so on, in…

— Tony Blair

There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and…

— Nigel Gibson

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way…

— William Osler

Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more…

— Jim Horning

Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated…

— Iain McGilchrist

Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me…

— Alex Lifeson

“The past is like a broken mirror— you don’t remember but fleeting glimpses of it, sparse moments over many years, all combined…

— Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi

“See, if you analyze stuff long enough, you’ll eventually break ideas down to the quantum level where nothing makes sense and there’s…

— P.S. Baber

Love is the greatest apologetic. It is the essential component in reaching the whole person in a fragmented world. The need is…

— Ravi Zacharias

Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our…

— Thomas Merton

Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created…

— Noam Chomsky

I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers.

— Kathleen Norris

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long…

— Diane Glancy

The Church must be one because a fragmented church is not much help to a fragmented world.

— Justo L. Gonzalez

These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I'm a product of a fragmented world.

— Junot Diaz

Europe's financial system is fragmented, although the gap in funding costs for banks within the euro area is no longer as wide…

— Mario Draghi

I think parenting actually makes you lose pieces of your soul again, because they go off, into your children. Or, I mean,…

— Larkin Grimm

When I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented.

— George Saunders

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

— George Murray

“I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.”

— Ryan Lilly

[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds…

— Jessica Hagedorn