Splits Quotes - Page 14

• A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

  Mitch Albom

  Heart, Two, Broken

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• Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.

  Bill Bryson

  Coffee, Age, Nylon

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.62, Lulu Press, Inc

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• From that first little touch, the whole world had shifted. Where before there was just one thing I could not live without, now there were two. There was no division – my love was not split between them now; it wasn’t like that. It was more like my heart had grown, swollen up to twice its size in that moment. All that extra space, already filled. The increase was almost dizzying.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Heart, Space, Two

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• Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I’m just smoke. She can’t touch me, right? He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!

  Rick Riordan

  Fate, Thinking, Laughing

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• And some sad news... the first lesbian couple to legally get married in the state of Massachusetts has split up. They cited irreconcilable similarities.

  Jay Leno

  Couple, Massachusetts, News

  "The Tonight Show", July 24, 2006.

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• Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless. - through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones. Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

  William Carlos Williams

  Weed, Flower, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of Williams Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.455, New Directions Publishing

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• I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

  Patti Smith

  Sky, Poetry, Storm

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible.

  Alice Cary

  Way, Action, Impossible

  alice cary (1855). “poems”, p.336

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• They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know.

  Chrystos

  Book, Museums, Library

  Chrystos (1988). “Not vanishing”, Press Gang Pub

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• Integrity means being whole, unbroken, undivided. It describes a person who has united the different parts of his or her personality, so there is no longer a split in the soul ... For the person of integrity, life may not be easy but it is simple: Figure out what is right and do it. All other considerations come in second.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Integrity, Mean, Simple

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• Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Time, Betrayal

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• The fact that science led me to spiritual insight is appropriate because the latest discoveries in physics and cell research are forging new links between the worlds of Science and Spirit. These realms were split apart in the days of Descartes centuries ago. However, I truly believe that only when Spirit and Science are reunited will we be afforded the means to a better world.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

  Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles: Easyread Large Edition”, p.230, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained - secret - into the body of the light!

  William Carlos Williams

  Light, Ideas, House

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.263, New Directions Publishing

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• In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup. If there is action elsewhere on the stage, the comic line can be lost.

  James Carver

  Focus, Theatre, Actors

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• In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream?

  Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

  Dream, Moon, Age

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• Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up.

  Michael Schenker

  Fighting, Band, Fighter

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• Light will someday split you open

  Hafez

  Inspirational, Light, Someday

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• At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.

  John Cheever

  Ignorance, Light, Two

  "The Journals of John Cheever" by Robert Gottlieb, 1966.

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• Danger is when you are split three ways: Your soul goes one way, your mind goes another way and your body goes yet another way.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Soul

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• It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.

  Clive James

  Sports, Men, Thinking

  "Falling Towards England". Book by Clive James, 1985.

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• In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.

  Silvan Shalom

  Kings, Law, Territory

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• Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

  Deepika Padukone

  Able, Comedy, Timing

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

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• Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.

  Lin Biao

  Defeated, Imperialism, Colossus

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• With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What makes this book as important as anything published in the last decade is the irresistible music, the formal dexterity and the imaginative leaps she makes with metaphor and language in these simply stunning poems. This is a very, very important achievement.

  Kwame Dawes

  Book, Writing, America

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• I want that love that moved the mountains.
  I want that love that split the ocean.
  I want that love that made the winds tremble.
  I want that love that roared like thunder.
  I want that love that will raise the dead.
  I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy.
  I want that love that is the silence of eternity.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Wind, Silence

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