Quotes on Divides

These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

Look, the Black community is diverse. We have generational divides. We have class divides. We have parts of the Black community that are fairly centrist, parts that are extremely activist.

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

The forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.

Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing _x000D_ That is more than your own. _x000D_ Let it brush your cheeks _x000D_ As it divides and rejoins behind you. _x000D_ _x000D_ The trees you planted in childhood have grown _x000D_ Too heavy. You cannot bring them along. _x000D_ Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold.

Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.