Divided Quotes - Page 2

• Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

  Leon Panetta

  Attitude, Thinking, Today

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• The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

  Francis Picabia

  Failure, Two, World

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• First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, People, Jerusalem

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• I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

  Howard Stern

  Atheist, Thinking, Rocks

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• Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Government, Accomplishment, Reform

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• Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Time, Book

  Sesames and Lilies "Of Kings' Treasuries" (1865)

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• Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

  Arundhati Roy

  Relationship, Thinking, World

  David Barsamian, Arundhati Roy (2004). “The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy : Interviews”, p.46, South End Press

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• The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

  Dennis Prager

  Class, Evil, Poverty

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• For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

  Pink

  Years, Salary, Bills

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• Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

  Evo Morales

  Latin, Nations

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• Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.

  A. A. Milne

  Funny, Witty, Class

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• The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.

  George Mikes

  Two, People, Groups

  George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.194, Penguin UK

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• It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are!" - Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.

  Boris Pasternak

  Real, Thinking, Doctors

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• Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Two, World

  Sir Thomas Browne, Claire Preston (1995). “Selected Writings”, p.19, Psychology Press

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• I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Life And Love, Humorous

  Annie Hall, www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  Rachel Cusk

  Thinking, Community, Black

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• Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

  Rita Dove

  Religious, Determination, Self

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• The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

  Will Durant

  Political, Acting, Triumph

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

  Barney Frank

  Two, People, Political

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• All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Attitude, War

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• Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage.

  Frantz Fanon

  Religious, Latin, Black And White

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• The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

  Richard Russo

  Growing Up, Kids, Parent

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Aug 28, 2014

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• ... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

  Nelson Algren

  Love You, Heart, Knowing

  Nelson Algren (1961). “Chicago: The City on the Make”

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• Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Reading, Glasses

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton: A List of All the Ms. Emendations in Mr. Collier's Folio, 1632”, p.13

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