Quotes About Compartments

#1. Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.

Sally Ride

#2. Does it seem reasonable that she should play so wonderfully, and live so quietly? I suspect that one day she will be wonderful in both. The water-tight compartments in her will break down, and music and life will mingle.

E. M. Forster

#3. Because life is more than the shoes your feet are in. More than the person you are. It's the togetherness. The parts of yourself in another. Memories and walls and cupboards and drawers with compartments for cutlery, so you know where everything is.

Fredrik Backman

#4. Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.

Arthur Koestler

#5. In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed to be, recapturing, so that I may hurl myself into them as into dark pits, those moments when I strayed through the trap-ridden compartments of a subterranean sky

Jean Genet

#6. In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.

Stephane Mallarme

#7. Life doesn't have compartments."
"Don't kid yourself. Niches and cubbyholes contain us," I reply.

Rodney Ross

#8. Communal franchise is wrong in principle and harmful in practice; the time has come in Fiji for all races to get out of the thin water-tight compartments and start thinking in terms of residents of Fiji.

A. D. Patel

#9. What's beautiful, grey and wears glass slippers? Cinderelephant. Why are elephants wrinkled? They don't fit on the ironing board. How do you get down from an elephant? You don't. You get down from a goose. Why do elephants have trunks? Because they'd look funny with a glove compartments

Jodi Picoult

#10. Can people do that? Can people want to be with someone all the time, okay most of the time and yet also wish they were alone? And not in little compartments but at once? At the same time? All the time? I want to be alone but I need not to be.

Marlon James

#11. Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-Meter shows them up and makes them confess their misdeeds. They are probably just compartments of the mind which, cut off, begin to act as though they were persons.

Lawrence Wright

#12. If there are two feelings, then I don't think you can put them in separate compartments ever, because one is a part of the other and inseparable.

Winston Graham

#13. I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.

Russell M. Nelson

#15. All subjects do not reside in neat little compartments, but are continuous and inseparable from the one big subject we have been put on Earth to study, which is life itself.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#17. Intelligence and love are not in separate compartments: love is rich in intelligence and intelligence is full of love.

Pope Benedict XVI

#18. The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.

Eric Hoffer

#19. The cast of Hamlet had not moved much. They had that haunted yet hopeful look in their eyes, like the ones you see in photographs of people crammed into steerage compartments, traveling to some new, unknown land.

Maureen Johnson

#20. One's life has many compartments.

Harold Pinter

#21. Little as he knew of women, he was aware that as a sex they are apt to be startled by the sight of men crawling out from under the seats of compartments.

P.G. Wodehouse

#22. Your life is your life. You can't live it in compartments.Each place you're in has a door open at either end.

David Levithan

#23. We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and greed - the whole train. The ego functions like an engine and there are many many compartments following it. Once the ego dies the whole train stops.

Rajneesh

#24. Groynes divided the mostly sandy beach into neat compartments.

Ian Rankin

#25. You cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair

Rohinton Mistry

#26. Luke: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments.
Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.

George Lucas

#27. There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

Alexis Carrel

#28. Van Helsing more than sensed the coming alive of the undead creature trapped inside the icy coffin. He saw it now. Seeping from a bad seal between compartments, a wisp of fucking smoke.

Robert W. Walker

#29. Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.

Lewis Mumford

#30. I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen one night when I was out in Edinburgh, and I never got it back.

Neve McIntosh

#31. Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#32. Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson