Dividing Quotes
131 quotes by 120 authors
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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
— John Cleese
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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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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
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The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.
— Richard P. Stanley
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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
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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
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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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