Splits Quotes - Page 19

• The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Rocks, Order

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Selected Works”, p.126, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun.

  Greg Bear

  Fun, Wish, Atoms

  Greg Bear (2014). “Sleepside: The Collected Fantasies”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or so. Pay your producer out of that. Then your manager. Then split it five ways among your band mates. Now don't act surprised when you see the drummer of a platinum-selling Canadian rock band behind the drive- thru window at Tim Hortons

  Steven Page

  Artist, Thinking, Rocks

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• I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Clouds, Enough

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.266, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's very important to stretch, because while it's good to look pumped, a lot of the moves are split legs, and twisting fast. So you really, really have to stay supple.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Moving, Important, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there" or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stress, Mean, Tears

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.84, New World Library

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• Charleston was where America split apart in 1861. Maybe it's where America comes together in 2015.

  Russell D. Moore

  America, Together, Charleston

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• If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Real, Practice, Ifs

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.67, Penguin

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• Here's what I think. I think that a lot of days, for me recently, it's like every split second the whole universe is created and destroyed. It's like constantly collapsing and reforming. And I think a lot of people feel that. I think that love is the answer and that's the only thing that matters.

  Andrew VanWyngarden

  Love Is, Thinking, People

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• Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves.

  Bobby Fischer

  Religious, Lying, Moving

  "Bobby Fischer Speaks Out!". Ambassador Report Interview with Len Zola, hwarmstrong.com. 1977.

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• A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed a concern that if she were to return to the house, she would get a very severe haircut.

  Sean Penn

  Team, Doors, House

  Source: gawker.com

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• The Federated Republic of Europe-the United States of Europe-that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain split into national groups, then Imperialism will recommence its work. Only a Federated Republic of Europe can give peace to the world.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Europe, Giving

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• I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Monday, Holiday, Yesterday

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• A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and have a Coke in the confectionery store. It is run by a Greek, as it used to be, but whether the same Greek or another I would not know. He does not recognize me, nor I him. Only the smell of his place is familiar, syrupy with old delights, as if the ghost of my first banana split had come close to breathe on me.

  Wallace Stegner

  Running, Smell, Tree

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier”, p.29, Penguin

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• Don’t ever leave me again,” I said in a tiny voice. I won’t,” he promised into my hair, sounding most un-Fang-like. “I won’t. Not ever.” And just like that, a cold shard of ice that had been inside my chest ever since we’d split up-well, it just disappeared. I felt myself relax for the first time in I don’t known how long. The wind was chilly, but the sun was bright, and my whole flock was together. Fang and I were together. Excuse me? I’m alive too.” Iggy’s plaintive voice made me pull back.

  James Patterson

  Hair, Ice, Wind

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• Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Soul, Body, Form

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• The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature

  Mark Twain

  Cutting, Hard Times, Two

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7281, Delphi Classics

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• I felt a Cleaving in my Mind- As if my Brain had split- I tried to match it- Seam by Seam- But could not make it fit.

  Emily Dickinson

  Brain, Mind, Fit

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1211, Delphi Classics

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• The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the soul is high. The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through. But East and West will pinch the heart That can not keep them pushed apart; And he whose soul is flat—the sky Will cave in on him by and by.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Heart, Hands, Sea

  "Renascence" l. 207 (1917)

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• I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death Eaters, People, World

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• I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

  Anita Shreve

  Decision, Tiny

  Anita Shreve (2014). “Light On Snow”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.

  Studs Terkel

  Thinking, Atoms, Way

  "Voice of America". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2002.

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• If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Blow, Rocks, Wonder

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.

  Otto Rank

  Spring, Patient, Conflict

  Otto Rank (1936). “Will therapy: an analysis of the therapeutic process in terms of relationship”

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• Experiments on split-brain patients reveal how readily the left brain interpreter can make up stories and beliefs. In one experiment, for example, when the word walk was presented only to the right side of a patient's brain, he got up and started walking. When he was asked why he did this, the left brain (where language is stored and where the word walk was not presented) quickly created a reason for the action: I wanted to go get a Coke.

  Michael Gazzaniga

  Brain, Religion, Coke

  "The Ethical Brain". Book by Michael Gazzaniga, 2005.

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