Splits Quotes

• Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mistake, Failure, Positive Thinking

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.10.

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• A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Epic, Law, Legs

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• To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do

  Ani DiFranco

  Two, Radical, Can Do

  Song: Reprieve, Album: Reprieve, 2006

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• In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

  Jandy Nelson

  Want, Saws

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.140, Penguin

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• The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  God, Sky, Two

  "Renascence" l. 207 (1917)

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• When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

  Raymond Chandler

  Grammar, Damn, Infinitive

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• You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Thinking, Order, Way

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

  Ovid

  Rivers, Force, Streams

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.359, Delphi Classics

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• So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.'

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Tuesday

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• Because in a split second, it's gone.

  Ayrton Senna

  Gone

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• I am made of endless hours. Not just split seconds.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Hours, Made, Endless

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• True healing comes from owning and accepting all of life's energies within ourselves....When they are allowed to be expressed, they take their places as important facets of our nature. There is no split between 'good' and 'bad.'

  Shakti Gawain

  Healing, Important, Energy

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Awakening: A Daily Guide to Conscious Living”, New World Library

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• According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

  Plato

  Two, Greek, Half

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• I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Growing Up, Gymnastics, Stills

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

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• 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 great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

  David Foster Wallace

  Hypocrisy, Irony, Flaws

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• The future is a split second away.

  Ana Monnar

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• The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.

  Loretta Young

  Time, Care, Attractive

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• Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.

  Mikhail Prokhorov

  Doors, Lord

  "Prokhorov Isn’t Selling Team, Or Getting Married But Will Get Even With Kidd" by Spencer Lund, uproxx.com. November 4, 2014.

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• The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Unity, Unbearable

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.385, Open Road Media

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• I like to do the splits onstage

  Gavin DeGraw

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• If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.

  Eleanor Clark

  Weed, Food, Love Life

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• Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

  Rebecca Wells

  Depression, People, Earth

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Ideas, Numbers, Rhyming

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• I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.

  Kylie Minogue

  Chinese, Legs, Able

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