Separation Quotes - Page 5

• Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Relationship, Break Up, Letting Go

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.34, Allison & Busby

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• History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Singers

  "What's Wrong With This Picture?". Interview with Niall Stokes, www.hotpress.com. October 28, 2003.

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• Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.

  Anais Nin

  Airports, Rehearsal, Stations

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• We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Nature, Connections, Forget

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• I'll be there for you, I will care for you, I keep thinking you just don't know. Tryna run from that, say you're done wit that, on your face girl it just don't show.

  Drake

  Relationship, Break Up, Sympathy

  "Song: "Take Care" ("Take Care")". February 21, 2012.

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• It's a shame, she had me convinced that she could've been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime.

  Drake

  Relationship, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Song: Come Winter

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• You can't say you're happy either. You don't even smile for me.

  Drake

  Relationship, Happiness, Smile

  Song: Lets Call It Off, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• I really never felt any tremendous aggravation or separation.

  Chita Rivera

  Aggravation, Felt

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do believe that separation can be a bit damaging at times. To be happy about yourself and your culture and all of that is necessary and fulfilling, but the whole tapestry is what's important.

  Chita Rivera

  Believe, Important, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.

  John Dewey

  Art, Philosophy, Divorce

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• By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Soul And Body, Void

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• Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Past, Activity

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.

  Joseph Hall

  Evil, Unity, Neutrality

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• True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.

  Eli Siegel

  Self, Individuality, Action

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• The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

  Barbara Kruger

  Teaching, Writing, Practice

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• I think the American people were saying we do not want to have further investigation. We want to close this off. They clearly made a separation between the personal conduct .. They want Congress to wrap it up, get it behind them, so we can get on to the issues that the president has been working with Congress.

  Roy Romer

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared - mentally, physically and spiritually - for our separation from this world.

  Loretta Young

  Believe, World, Accomplished

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was traumatic but exhilarating to feel what my father felt. I remember the ache of the separation from the people I loved. I would never go back to that time. Yet the things I learned benefited my life.

  Nate Saint

  Father, People, Remember

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• While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific idea in terms of your overall happiness and health.

  Eric Maisel

  Health, Ideas, Creative

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.163, Penguin

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• What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.

  Brigham Young

  Death, Doe, Body

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• I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be a requirement in public schools, given our Constitutional requirement of separation of church and state. I feel that the highly desirable goal of religious education must be principally the responsibility of church and home. I do not believe that public education should show any hostility toward religion, and neither should it inhibit voluntary participation, if it does not interfere with the educational process.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Religious, Prayer, Educational

  Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford (1979). “The Presidential Campaign 1976: President Gerald R. Ford. 2. v”

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• The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Men, Feet

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

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• I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.

  Ibn Arabi

  Spiritual, Knights, Unions

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