Separating Quotes

The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.

— Johann Georg Hamann

“This is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at…

— David Levithan

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the…

— Helen Rowland

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

— Joyce Meyer

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

— Ambrose Bierce

On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.

— Anonymous

A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to leave them…

— Alice Dreger

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of…

— Ambrose Bierce

It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it…

— Alain Badiou

People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the…

— Fred Upton

I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no…

— A. R. Ammons

I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's…

— bell hooks

Separating is not divorcing. Please keep that in mind. It is, instead, the second step in seeing if there's a better way…

— Carolyn Hax

There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity…

— Werner Heisenberg

...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a…

— Seneca the Younger

Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of Signs,…

— John Locke

If we turn to the differences separating Communist, Fascist, and National Socialist regimes, we find that they can be accounted for by…

— Richard Pipes

The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating…

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

All television is an advertisement - that's why it exists. It wasn't the art-form first and then the commerce - it was…

— Chris Hardwick

I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups…

— Mark Pagel

The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their…

— Thomas Jefferson

No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating…

— Max Kozloff

The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you…

— Malcolm X

Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

— Paolo Giordano

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

— Swami Vivekananda

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

— Millard Fillmore

It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

— Paulo Coelho

I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.

— Jeffrey Dunn

More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and…

— Dean Potter

You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

— Alexia Fast

In the druidical religion of liberalism, not separating your recyclables is a sin, but abortion is just a medical procedure.

— Ann Coulter

I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do.

— Vanessa Hudgens

I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our…

— Esther Dyson

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be…

— Noam Chomsky

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because…

— Simone Weil

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted…

— Ferdinand de Saussure