Dividing Quotes

131 quotes by 120 authors

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. — Ambrose Bierce
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can… — William Blake
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery.… — Bono
There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that… — Nick Cave
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as… — Nicolas Chamfort
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. — John Cleese
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old… — Benjamin Franklin
The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to… — Thomas Jefferson
The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up… — Sun Tzu
The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital… — Ambrose
Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject,… — Rajneesh
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion,… — Grey Owl
You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on. — Barnes Wallis
By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men. — Richard P. Stanley
Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the… — Lindley Murray
Children all over the world consort quite naturally with animals. They don't see any dividing line. That is something they have to be taught, just… — J M Coetzee
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason… — Ulysses S. Grant

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