Dividing Quotes - Page 8

• Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to life. It only brings misery, anxiety, torture, and tension, because whenever you do anything halfheartedly you are dividing yourself into two parts, and that is one of the greatest calamities that has happened to human beings - they are all split.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Heart, Two

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• The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

  Adrian Rogers

  Government, Bbq, Giving

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• Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Children, Thinking, Adults

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• There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Somewhere Else, Elements

  "Nick Cave is not in the business of telling people what to do". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Divides, Ifs

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• I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

  Anthony Storr

  Bipolar, Lines, Want

  " Anthony Storr, the face of psychiatry, dies" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2001.

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• The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.

  Wendell Berry

  Character, Culture, Answers

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.198, Counterpoint Press

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• Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.

  Betty Smith

  Liars, Writing, Years

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Children, Hands

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• The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

  Derrick Jensen

  Resistance, Lines, Mainstream

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• This should be a true peace, which leads to the end of occupation and aggression, to the return of refugees to their homes, to the destruction of the dividing wall, and the establishment of a political status for East Jerusalem.

  Khaled Mashal

  Wall, Home, Political

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• Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes; bid it listen and tell thee whether it cannot hear the shout of those crowned saints, as of those that are dividing the spoil, and receiving the reward of all their services and sufferings here on earth.

  William Gurnall

  Keys, Promise, Suffering

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.150

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• Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ

  D. A. Carson

  Brother, Swings, Idols

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• Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged? Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms.

  Eve Ensler

  Joy, Soul, Incredibles

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• What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

  Adrian Rogers

  Bbq, Receiving, Other Half

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• The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Growth, Investing

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• Happiness and bacteria have one thing in common; they multiply by dividing!

  Rutvik Oza

  Bacteria, Common, One Thing

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• Dividing into teams doesn't necessarily mean denigrating others. Studies of groupishness have generally found that groups increase in-group love far more than they increase out-group hostility.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Team, Mean, Groups

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• Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Business, Goal, Mediocrity

  "Strategy as Stretch and Leverage" by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, hbr.org. March/April 1993.

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• In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Reflection, Past, Years

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

  Jack Kerouac

  America, East, Lines

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

  Adrian Rogers

  Bbq, Other Half, Poor

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• When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation

  Adrian Rogers

  Ideas, Bbq, People

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• People nowadays talk about issues as if they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they read and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they're the experts of everything.

  Suzy Kassem

  Reading, Thinking, Echoes

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• A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Fall, Government

  Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

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