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Quotes About Dividing

We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
~ Walter Pater
I think it is possible that Marxism was the first attempt, for our time, outside the formal religions, at a world-mind, a world ethic. It went wrong, could not prevent itself from dividing and sub-dividing, like all the other religions, into smaller and smaller chapels, sects and creeds. But it was an attempt.
~ Doris Lessing
A person with a robust personality appears capable of doing anything. This is what the common man lacks. This is the dividing factor, the difference between the hero and the common man.
~ Suniel Shetty
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
~ Walter Pater
Whatever path we take, the first step is to acknowledge the complexity of the dilemma and to accept that simplistically dividing the past into good guys and bad guys leads nowhere. Unless, of course, we are willing to admit that we usually follow the lead of the bad guys.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
There's a new dividing line in olives: between those who prefer Nocellara to all other varieties, and the people who have never tasted them.
~ Bee Wilson
The English word sin is derived from the German term Sünde, which carries the connotation of sundering or dividing.
~ Robert E. Barron
Well of blackness, all defiling, Full of flattery and reviling, Ah, what mischief hast thou wrought Out of what was airy thought, What beginnings and what ends, Making and dividing friends! Mary Elizabeth Coleridge The Contents of an Ink Bottle
~ Robert Galbraith
A man consists of what I may call an Old World of personal consciousness and, beyond a dividing sea, a series of New Worlds - the not too distant Virginias and Carolinas of the personal sub-subconscious and the vegetative soul; the Far West of the collective unconscious, with its flora of symbols, its tribes of aboriginal archetypes; and, across another, vaster ocean, at the antipodes of everyday consciousness, the world of Visionary Experience.
~ Aldous Huxley
The dividing line for Yisrael Beiteinu is who supports terror and who fights terror.
~ Avigdor Lieberman
I took a look at what you needed and divided what was left between
~ Robyn Carr
It is not a question of finding an answer to the night of truth, but of sitting up with one another through the night... of dividing the abyss in half, in a companionship that is its own meaning.
~ John D. Caputo
Religion beautifies and enlightens human life; conversely, human horrifies religion, dividing into sects.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
digging up some of the perennials that needed dividing, and bringing them back to a small sunny strip he had fitted out as a garden in his new place in the mountains.
~ Rose Senehi
A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.
~ Samuel Rogers
One thing is that you won't get climate action without equity, and Greens around the world have always understood this. This has been the dividing point between the green party of France and Emmanuel Macron: You can't get climate policy without equity.
~ Elizabeth May
I have made 34 pictures, 10 of them for Disney, and none of them for Disney were really bad characters. So I think that recently I have kind of begun to hide behind certain actor's devices in order to make a dividing line between what I used to do and the characters I have been asked to do today.
~ Dean Jones
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
~ Charles Duhigg
It's a reality of film festivals that you can't see everything. You're dividing your time between seeing films and utilizing that unique space to have meetings with people that you can't otherwise.
~ Thom Powers
Much of this war mentality came from their theology. They rejected the idea that the line between good and evil runs through the human heart. Rather, they saw the dividing line as running through an invisible world of angels and demons.
~ Jon Ward
Very well. I think that you can see my point here—we avoid chaos, in building houses and dividing land and so forth, by having an agreed standard for the measure of a unit of length.
~ Gregory David Roberts
At the software-architecture level, the complexity of a problem is reduced by dividing the system into subsystems. Humans have an easier time comprehending several simple pieces of information than one complicated piece.
~ Steve McConnell
I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!
~ Jose Mujica