Divided People Quotes

#1. I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

Howard Stern

#2. It's very interesting to me that the nationalist movement in Scotland has become so positive and self-reflective rather than anti-English. The referendum in 2014 was peaceful, for all its deeply and passionately divided people.

Sarah Hall

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

Richard Paul Evans

#4. Here they [the Jaredites] became a flourishing nation; but, giving way in time to internal dissensions, they divided into factions, which warred with one another until the people were totally destroyed (p. 15).

James E. Talmage

#5. They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.

John Hume

#6. The people of the world could be divided into two groups: those who used all of their chances, and those who stood still through opportunity after opportunity, waiting for a moment that would never be perfect.

Jade Chang

#7. Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

Herbert Simon

#8. We will remember that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea:- Yes. We. Can.

Barack Obama

#9. The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.

William Shenstone

#10. A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and subdivided into little commonwealths ... with no center of union and no common interest.

Josiah Tucker

#11. People will tell you that the world is divided into good and bad, and that I'm bad, but it's not, and I'm not. The real truth is that I make choices based on my circumstances. We all do. It trumps everything else, whether you know it or not. There has never been a good or bad.

Zia Marie

#12. If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive
all would have perished by want of subsistence.

Abraham Lincoln

#13. The human world, he reflected, was divided into little clusters of people - tiny tribes, small groups of friends, families - and if you belonged to only a few of these, then your life was circumscribed.

Alexander McCall Smith

#14. America is not divided, our enemies they will be stopped. Cause we the people are united, and still one nation under God.

Randy Travis

#15. Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

Michael Lind

#16. All the painters who appear in our museums are
failures at painting; the only people ever talked
about are failures; the world is divided into two
categories of people: failures and those unknown.

Francis Picabia

#17. I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.

Dwight L. Moody

#18. It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better ... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen

#19. When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

Tim Kaine

#20. She says that the world is divided into the people who imagine their own funerals and the people who don't, and that smart and artistic people naturally fall into the former category.

Gayle Forman

#21. You will identify yourself either as a body or perfect spirit, as either divided or whole, depending upon how you see others. And, once you understand that, you will be careful about how you think about other people.

Gary Renard

#22. People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

Jonathan Carroll

#23. This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted. Luckily I'm the hunter. Nothing can change that.

Joel McCrea

#24. Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food;

Elizabeth Goudge

#25. People are divided into two parts: some of them look for and cannot find anything, others find but are not satisfied.

Mihai Eminescu

#26. First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#27. Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

Tom Daschle

#28. Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation ... all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.

Brigham Young

#29. The world is divided into two categories of people: those who shit in drinking water and those who don't.

Joseph Jenkins

#30. The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

John Gregory Dunne

#31. People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.

Irena Sendler

#32. In speaking powerfully and eloquently for mercy and reconciliation to people divided by old hatreds and persecuted by abuse of power, the Holy Father was a beacon of light not just for Catholics, but for all people.

William J. Clinton

#33. And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says.
"Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.

Veronica Roth

#34. People rely too much on their lifelong instincts. Their perception is divided by necessary obedience, which they themselves have become too weak to liberate themselves from. I'd let the Devil read me the bible, before I trusted the Words of God or the Mind of Man.

Lionel Suggs

#35. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

Jonathan Haidt

#36. We can put the chairs in a circle, but as long as they are occupied by people who have an
inner hierarchy, the circle itself will have a divided life, one more form of "living within the lie": a false community.

Parker J. Palmer

#37. What God has divided, let us never try to unite, but as Christ went without the camp, bearing His reproach, so let us come out from the ungodly, and be a peculiar people.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#38. Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

Barney Frank

#39. If you promise to love, trust, respect, support and stand by someone no matter what, do not just speak those words when times are good. Live those words when challenges arise. The stronger the love and commitment, the more unbreakable the bond. United hearts will never be easily divided.

Carlos Wallace

#40. He had nerve damage: input could not penetrate. The world stalled out at his edges. Sometimes he had trouble speaking to other people, rummaging for language, and it seemed to him that an invisible layer divided him from the rest of the world, a membrane of emotional surface tension.

Colson Whitehead

#41. Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

Sam Harris

#42. I thought if I gave people all of my journey in one go, it could be overwhelming and easily forgotten, and I didn't want to make an album where the single was so popular that you overlook the whole record. So three parts felt right - it's a number that can't be divided into.

Dawn Angelique

#43. The world can be divided between people who can get a waiter's attention and those who can't.

Jonathan Carroll

#44. The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

Alfred A. Montapert

#45. I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I'm still going through the motions.

Ross Macdonald

#46. But you know what they say ... Size isn't everything. Of course the people that say that are divided into two categories: dickless wonders and those not facing the troll that could've eaten New Jersey.

Rob Thurman

#47. The individualists' ideal was to live their lives as neither exploiter nor exploited - but how to do that in a society divided in this way? Their answer was for people to take direct action through the reprise individuelle, or in slang, la reprise au tas - taking back the whole heap.

Richard Parry

#48. The story Grandpa told us helped me realize that people cannot be divided into groups by ethnicity, religion, or any other feature, only into groups of good, bad, and indifferent people.

Savo Heleta

#49. My people were divided about surrendering.

Chief Joseph

#50. When people's love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change.

David Cameron

#51. A true friend is one soul divided into two people.

Aristotle.

#52. This is a bright place, filled with frightened people, and fast hard things that hurt and wound. No matter. I swore I would remain by her side forever, and until death divided us.

Neil Gaiman

#53. The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided.

Frank Carson

#54. If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people-people who say 'I wonder why such and such is not done" and people who say "Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing?"

Winston Churchill

#55. He always held that panic was the best means of survival; back in the olden days, his theory went, people faced with hungry saber-toothed tigers could be divided very simply into those who panicked and those who stood there saying "What a magnificent brute!" and "Here, pussy.

Terry Pratchett

#56. A people or a faith divided against itself became the sum of its weaknesses, not its strengths, and anyone who didn't know that was doomed.

David Weber

#57. I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

Malala Yousafzai

#58. Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.

Luke Davies

#59. If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

#60. The nation is divided, roughly half-and-half, between people who instinctively resent the Nanny State, and those who instinctively long for its ministrations.

David Warren

#61. Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of people [they're] with and this 'other' reality.

Sherry Turkle

#62. She quickly discovered that the world is divided into people who know how to be comfortable by themselves on a bar chair and people who do not.

Jonathan Franzen

#63. Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their affection for the president or - we don't have those problems and we don't have the reinvention convention.

David Axelrod

#64. It was a place for people with mental health problems and not alcoholics; as though the two could be neatly divided like that; as though the world was black and white and not a murky grey.

Victoria Spry

#65. That was it. In Annie's view all the people in the world were divided into three groups: brats, poor poor things ... and Annie.

Stephen King

#66. When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.

Jill Lepore

#67. Our shuttle crew is four people, because we're going to transfer a crew up to station, so all the jobs are divided between four people rather than five or six people. So it's been busy.

Linda M. Godwin

#68. I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.

Michael Craig-Martin

#69. As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal?

Anthony Liccione

#70. Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

Max Frisch

#71. ... and [thanks] to Ludmila Parks for explaining to me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have read the Brothers Karamazov and those who have not.

Marci Shore

#72. The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.

Craig Venter

#73. After trauma the world becomes sharply divided between those who know and those who don't. People who have not shared the traumatic experience cannot be trusted, because they can't understand it. Sadly, this often includes spouses, children, and co-workers. Later

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#74. God's Kingdom isn't divided into areas of important people and areas of little people. In God's sight, everyone's needful.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#75. When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

John Hume

#76. When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.

Elizabeth Taylor

#77. Using numerology to count the people I sent to heaven,
Produces more digits than 22 divided by 7.

Immortal Technique

#78. That wisdom is not unique to our people, but I think it has special meaning to those of us born out of mass rape, whose ancestors were carried off and divided up into policies and stocks.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#79. We were like two performers in a play, but we were divided, we were not acting with one another. We had to endure it alone, we had to put up this show, this miserable, sham performance for the sake of all these people I did not know and did not want to see again.

Daphne Du Maurier

#80. People often ask me if I am the book's Pakistani protagonist. I wonder why they never ask if I am his American listener. After all, a novel can often be a divided man's conversation with himself.

Mohsin Hamid

#81. All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead.

Coleman Dowell

#82. Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.

Jack Whitehall

#83. I've made sure to always update my web properties constantly - Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, my Hypebeast blog ... making sure I divided content across all of them to keep each outlet fresh to keep people coming back.

Theophilus London

#84. The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened.

Nicholas Murray Butler

#85. The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361

Geraldine Brooks

#86. I hear much talk about us and them. I am always wary when people speak this way, as if people can be so easily divided into friend and enemy.

Rick Riordan

#87. The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.

Agnes Repplier

#88. I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush.

Andy Rooney

#89. I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.

Brad Carson

#90. America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.

Charles Barkley

#91. The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.

George Mikes

#92. Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Aristotle.

#93. Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes he preferred writers and sometimes he preferred people.

Malcolm Bradbury

#94. I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

#95. You fucked your prisoner?" Avasarala said, her expression evenly divided between amusement and disgust. "Nah," Amos said. "I don't tend to do that with people I like.

James S.A. Corey

#96. The way I see it, the world is divided into the watchers and the watchees, and there's more and more of the audience and less and less to see. People who actually do anything are a goddamned endangered species.

Lionel Shriver

#97. People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.

Douglas Fairbanks

#98. It already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things.

Gayle Forman

#99. Leading the Jewish people is not easy
we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.

Shimon Peres

#100. Either you like cats or you don't. Whole nations have been divided on what people thought of an animal that mates openly, walks in silence and keeps its own counsel.

John Hillaby