Splits Quotes - Page 19

• The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

  David Allen

  Take Control, Hardest, Productive

  Twitter post from May 30, 2009

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• I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

  Susan Griffin

  Different, Earth, Abandonment

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• My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

  Robert Ballard

  Virginia, Half, England

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

  Abbie Cornish

  Children, Thinking, Dysfunction

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Over the last decade, - economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.

  Gavyn Davies

  Years, Two, Events

  "The great economics rift reopens" by Gavyn Davies, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Feet, Squares, Cedars

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• I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.

  Len Goodman

  Home, Broken, Parent

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• It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

  Naima Adedapo

  Believe, Able, Cartwheels

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• Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn't have kids - but divorce is hard.

  Connie Britton

  Husband, Kids, Divorce

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

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• My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Mother, Father, Parent

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• Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC.

  Kanye West

  Girl, Kfc, Dating

  Song: Touch the Sky

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• My mother says I used to breast-feed in a split.

  Dree Hemingway

  Mother, Used, Breasts

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• There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Christian, Thinking, Views

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• I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

  Tom Hardy

  Men, Elephants, Littles

  "Tom Hardy: the rake's progress". Interview With Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2010.

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• My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Country, Japan, Years

  "Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature: Lagerkvist-Pontoppidan". Book by Thomson Gale, 2007.

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• But I think people see 'Wallace and Gromit' as something akin to an elderly couple. These two know each other so well. Nothing can split them apart.

  Nick Park

  Couple, Thinking, Elderly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

  May Sarton

  Inspiring, Children, Play

  May Sarton (2014). “Kinds of Love: A Novel”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

  Ralph Steadman

  Artist, Verbs

  "Lying with the best of them" by Ralph Steadman, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

  Edgard Varese

  Ideas, Sound, Groups

  "Aspects of 20th Century Music". Book by R. Delone, May 1, 1975.

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• It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!

  Richard Lederer

  Writing, Practice, Confusing

  Richard Lederer (2012). “Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay”, p.58, Marion Street Press

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• I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

  Isaac Marion

  Book, Writing, Giving

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• Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

  Dick Morris

  Gay, Public Opinion, Unions

  "Bush's Weapon Against Dean" by Dick Morris, www.foxnews.com. November 5, 2003.

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• I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

  John Lee Hooker

  Pick Me Up, Six, Memphis

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• If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.

  Sonia Braga

  Kids, What Is Love, House

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• To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.

  Criss Jami

  Pain, Ideas, Confusion

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