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Quotes About Divided

Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.
~ Friedrich von Schlegel
Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
~ Seneca the Younger
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes being corrected.
~ Dale Ahlquist
Race doesn't matter to the people who are violating our constitutional principles, but they make it matter to keep us divided.
~ Derrick Grayson
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
Gaul was, to quote Caesar's famous opening line 'divided in three parts'
~ John Julius Norwich
The result was that Wilfrid was deposed, and his huge diocese was divided between three new appointees:
~ Unknown
Love is a many splintered thing.
~ James Thurber
A divided mind cannot conquer a united soul.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Therefore, when we speak of ourselves as divided into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace, we must be understood always to imply that within each of these classes there are a certain number of aliens, if we may so call them,??persons who are mainly led, not by their class spirit, but by a general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection
~ Matthew Arnold
Must someone be in some sense a member of a human community, trained in its practices and beholden to its norms, in order to have a "self"? Responses to this issue have divided scholars into the individualist school and the collectivist school.
~ Unknown
The outward signs of his priestly vocation were abandoned in a wooden footlocker. Like a casket. He shed his blood-stained prayer stole, his clerical collar, and a photo of his investiture as a priest that was folded down the middle – as if the crease itself depicted his divided nature. Good man. Bad man. Sinner. Saint. Christian. Buddhist.
~ Unknown
If such a gift I truly have been given And yet, divided, torn, still burn and stray He is to blame who fashioned me for fire.
~ Michelangelo Buonarroti
It was odd how often this happened, Ginger and Mimi retaining different slivers of family memory. It was almost as if the recollections had been split down the middle and doled out: you get this, I get that, so no one would be privy to it all.
~ Unknown
Let us trust God and our better judgment to set us right hereafter. United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.
~ Patrick Henry
People certainly lead compartmentalized lives and their friends do not know each other. It's unfortunate.
~ Patrick Modiano
Real time, I reasoned, cannot be divided into sections like numbers on the face of a clock. If I write about the past as I simultaneously dwell in the present, am I still in real time? Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory.
~ Unknown
Independence is not something you can divide into phases. It exists or does not exist.
~ Paul Scott
And they crucified Him. They also divided His garments by casting lots to decide what each of them would take.
~ Mark 15:24