Divided And Conquered Quotes

#1. Quinn, that's the ring from downstairs!" I hissed in a loud whisper because I was afraid of the answer. "Did you steal that ring?

Penny Reid

#2. There's a vast fraternity of record collectors, and the record store was their hub. There was not a lot of information on these groups or the labels so you'd gather [there] and it would be like a library. - Lenny Kaye quoted

Gary Calamar

#3. Faith does not make things happen. It merely breeds perseverance; which helps one persist in making things happen.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.

Thomas Hardy

#5. What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

Alain De Botton

#6. A united people is a smoldering revolution. A divided people is a conquered people.

Richard Paul Evans

#7. We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#8. In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. If love wasn't conditional, everybody would be in love with everybody.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#11. It's the invention of clothes, not nature, that made "private parts" private.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. Only here had he come to understand that he was not a battleground - to be divided and conquered by his grandparents - but a garden, where each person who'd contributed to his existence longed to see that something of themselves had taken root and grown.

Mary Doria Russell

#13. The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. Man usually sees what he is looking for; seldom what he is looking at.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. He used to believe that to forgive was to allow an offense to go unpunished. Now he finally understood that forgiveness was not about the past, but the future.

Sherry Thomas

#16. Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.

Charles Mackay

#17. I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894 ... A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.

Marie Curie

#18. Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving,
seized me so strongly with his charm that,
as you see, it has not left me yet.
Love brought us to one death.

Dante Alighieri

#19. The less knowledgeable a nation is, the more 'miracles' the nation has.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#20. Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#21. I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

Kate Millett