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Quotes About Divided

One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
~ Olympia Snowe
Catalan society is divided. There's one bloc - which isn't a majority - that backs pro-independence parties. But there's also a bloc that doesn't, which favours the current state, the statute of autonomy, and either increased decentralisation or even increased recentralisation.
~ Pedro Sanchez
My great-great grandfather was a Tory and fought on the side of the Crown against the rebels." "He was on the losing side then?
~ Beverly Jenkins
By 1933, when Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party assumed power in Germany, the military was divided between the Wehrmacht—the traditional army, navy, and air force of the German state—and the SS, a paramilitary organization loyal to Hitler and the Nazi Party.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
~ Walter Bagehot
We were cousins united by blood but separated by language
~ Shoba Narayan
Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.
~ Luke Davies
We now live in a very polarized nation, divided not between Republicans and Democrats but between those who want to defend our liberties and those who want to defend politically correct stupidities.
~ Tom Tancredo
Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.
~ Janine di Giovanni
But then I looked in the glass and saw the spy beyond the clergyman, the image beyond the image, and beyond the spy was yet another man, the image beyond the image beyond the image. Reality blurred; fantasy and truth became inextricably intertwined. I told myself I had imagined the distant stranger but as I felt my personality begin to divide I covered my face with my hands.
~ Susan Howatch
The close election results demonstrated the ability of black voters to decide a race when whites were divided.
~ Bliss Broyard
Our shuttle crew is four people, because we're going to transfer a crew up to station, so all the jobs are divided between four people rather than five or six people. So it's been busy.
~ Linda M. Godwin
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.
~ Arthur W. Pink
The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.
~ David Hume
The truth is that America has been closely divided politically for quite some time. That was reflected in some of the challenges I had with the Republican Congress.
~ Barack Obama
Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
~ Mason Cooley
Intolerance is a form of divided consciousness in which abstract, conceptual, ideological hatred vanquishes concrete, real and individual moments of identification.
~ Michael Ignatieff
The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
~ Agnes Repplier
Prisca faceva il morto nell'acqua limpida come cristallo e strizzava gli occhi per guardare il cielo, diviso esattamente a metà dalla striscia bianca di un aeroplano.
~ Bianca Pitzorno
Nowadays, and speaking very generally, geological time is divided first into four great chunks known as eras: Precambrian, Palaeozoic (from the Greek meaning "old life"), Mesozoic ("middle life") and Cenozoic ("recent life"). These four eras are further divided into anywhere from a dozen to twenty subgroups
~ Bill Bryson
Moreover, all this applies only to units of time. Rocks are divided into quite separate units known as systems, series and stages.
~ Bill Bryson
All Gaul is divided into three parts.
~ Julius Caesar
That an ethnically divided posttotalitarian state should not make an easy transition to liberal democracy seems obvious to many people in hindsight.
~ Francis Fukuyama
then the voice in my head said WHETHER YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE OR LIVE IN DIVIDED CEASELESS REVOLT AGAINST IT WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE
~ Frank Bidart