Quotes About Separation

The man who is successful is the man who works hard during business hours, and then goes home and leaves his office behind him and takes up play.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.

keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

La burocracia es una estructura mediante la cual una persona es convenientemente separada de las consecuencias de sus actos.

and the two need to be kept separate.

Theory should stay independent from practice and vice versa—and we should not extract academic economists from their campuses and put them in positions of decision making.

So, "giving advice" as a sales pitch is fundamentally unethical—selling cannot be deemed advice. We can safely settle on that. You can give advice, or you can sell (by advertising the quality of the product), and the two need to be kept separate.

Al llegar a Roma respiré, y pensé que comenzaría una época feliz para nosotros. No tenía motivos para pensarlo, pero lo hice. Teníamos un alojamiento en los alrededores de la plaza Bologna. Leone dirigía un periódico clandestino y estaba siempre fuera de casa. Lo detuvieron a los veinte días de nuestra llegada y no lo vi nunca más.

That's what us Tucks are, Winnie. Stuck so's we can't move on. We ain't part of the wheel no more. Dropped off, Winnie. Left behind. And everywhere around us, things is moving and growing and changing.

The union two abysses does not produce a height.

Every gesture, every word, and even the silence of those with whom she came in contact, implied, and often expressed, that she was banished, and as much alone as if she inhabited another sphere, or communicated with the common nature by other organs and senses than the rest of human kind.

She could scarcely forgive him--least of all now, when the heavy footstep of their approaching Fate might be heard, nearer, nearer, nearer!--for being able so completely to withdraw himself from their mutual world--while she groped darkly, and stretched forth her cold hands, and found him not.

All through life that piece of crape had hung between him and the world; it had separated him from cheerful brotherhood and woman's love and kept him in that saddest of all prisons his own heart;

The links that united her to the rest of human kind - links of flowers, or silk or gold - had all been broken.

Poichè il destino e gli eventi li avevano tenuti per tanto tempo separati, occorrevva che qualche cosa di lieve e come indifferente corresse avanti ad aprire le porte dell'anima a parole più gravi, suggerite da più gravi pensieri.

Carl was just saying good-bye, Mom said. Really, I said. He must speak in tongues.

The fact is, 100 percent of you will still be alive, just in a divided state.

You're on the other side of the glass even before you step outside.

It will never happen for them, but somehow he's content in knowing that in some other place and time it would have. He holds her for ten seconds, twenty. Thirty. Then she slips away, and he returns to the dining hall. In a few minutes he hears her playing, the strains of her music pouring forth, filling Happy Jack with the upbeat, pulse-pounding sound track of the damned.

Her husband of more than ninety years was gleaned five years prior. Now she wanted to be with him, wherever he was, and if he was nowhere, then at least they would be nowhere together.

But what good did that do now? It was as if they existed in two different universes. Dwelling on such feelings couldn't lead them anywhere good. Yet still she entertained the thought. She even considered saying those words to him again . . . but she held her tongue, as a good scythe must do.

She leaves him alone with the arm. His arm. An arm that bears the unmistakable tattoo of a tiger shark.

Because Dirk is different. Dirk is missing the spark. Which means there's nothing holding him together but stitches.