Top 100 Quotes About Divides
#1. I'm not Catholic, I'm not Orthodox and I wouldn't even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don't want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it's love.
Ziggy Marley
#2. The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
Grace Paley
#3. Friendship multiplies joy and divides sorrow.
Nicky Gumbel
#4. Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas.
George Wald
#5. Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Kahlil Gibran
#6. There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
Geraldine Brooks
#7. The Things That Divide Us Are Stronger Than The Things That Unite Us.
Jonathan Hickman
#8. The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
Octavio Paz
#9. When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.
E. Stanley Jones
#10. I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black.
Neal Shusterman
#11. In diversity we find our strongest bonds and most violent divides.
Wes Fesler
#12. Psalm 29:7 The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire.
Daniel Ankele
#13. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.
Marcus Samuelsson
#14. The bigoted sectarian, whoever he may be, divides the world into two classes; those who, with zeal and blind faith, accept his dogmas and those who do not. The first he calls "brother, "and the second class he regards as enemies who must be persecuted.
Anonymous
#15. Part of me thinks that your very vulnerability brings you closer to the meaning of life, just as for others, the quest to believe oneself white divides them from it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#16. London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.
Peter York
#17. Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell.
Anthony
#18. Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can't go through it, forget it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#19. Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
Zainab Salbi
#20. The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
George Herbert
#21. Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.
Jose Marti
#22. It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
Lauren Oliver
#23. Nobody in the West should forget that what unites the two main branches of Islam is far greater that what divides them, and that the vast majority of all Muslims still cherish the ideal of unity preached by Muhammad himself - an ideal the more deeply held for being so deeply broken.
Anonymous
#25. If there is a devil, his greatest tool is division. He divides us into this group and that group and whispers that the worst, most embarrassing thing we can do is jump sides. The worst thing we can do is change our minds. Now, how silly is that? I change my mind about things every day.
S.T. Rogers
#26. My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.
Daniel Pipes
#27. Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.
Laura Owens
#28. [Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.
Joseph Epstein
#29. In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#30. Karaoke divides humanity into two groups: those who don't want to sing and shouldn't be compelled, and those who do and shouldn't be allowed.
Dennis Vickers
#31. Pride divides us way more than uni es us.
Ben Tolosa
#32. Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical plane. Love elevates us to a plane of spirit.
Frederick Lenz
#34. It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Audre Lorde
#35. With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it. A tiny set of genetic variations divides us from the Neanderthals, but that has made all the difference.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#36. I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.
Doris Lessing
#37. There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.
George H. W. Bush
#38. Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
Euripides
#39. Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.
Stephen Colbert
#40. In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.
Steven Soderbergh
#41. Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
#42. The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.
Gaston Bachelard
#43. In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.
Kofi Annan
#44. In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.
Wilhelm Wundt
#45. The depression we find ourselves in here, and which is causing havoc in America, is allowing people to give weight to that which divides them, rather than to the shared experiences and elements of connection they see mirrored in their fellow man.
Jacqueline Winspear
#46. I'm manifestly not the same as Alex Salmond. I'm a different gender, for example ... I'm being flippant, but maybe this is a partly gender-driven difference: I'm very keen that we find a way of reaching out across party divides to find things we agree on, as well as the things we disagree on.
Nicola Sturgeon
#47. We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on abortion. This is an issue that divides America. But certainly reasonable people can agree on how to reduce abortions in America.
George W. Bush
#48. A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.
Archibald Marwizi
#49. O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.
Victor Hugo
#50. The racial divides in the United States will not be overcome until lynchings of all kinds are as painful to nonblacks as they are to blacks, until each of us become guardians of the sufferings history has bequeathed us.
Julius Lester
#51. As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
Arthur Golden
#53. I wondered if people ever blamed the end of friendships on geographical differences, the divides that come from being born in different areas, culture clash.
Jennifer Close
#54. Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step into another land and view its indigenous practices and beliefs through a local lens, instead of a telescope.
Nadia Hashimi
#55. Every act has a consequence, Ellie. In my view the world divides into people who can see that, and make a decision accordingly, and those who just go for what feels good at the time.
Jojo Moyes
#56. In 1978, Elizabeth Blackburn, working with Joe Gall, identified the DNA sequence of telomeres. Every time a cell divides, it gets shorter. But telomeres usually don't. So there must be something happening to the telomeres to keep their length in equilibrium.
Carol W. Greider
#57. True friendshipmultiplies the good in life and divides its evils. strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island ... to find one real friend in a lifetime is a good fortune;to keep him is a blessing
Baltasar Gracian
#58. The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center.
Josephine Herbst
#59. If you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.
Susan Howatch
#60. The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
Ed Smith
#61. We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.
Barack Obama
#62. She had learned from her encounter with Mike Eden that there really was more than one man in the world-the piece of knowledge that more than anything else divides women from girls.
Herman Wouk
#63. The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.
Henry Van Dyke
#65. School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
Ivan Illich
#66. I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.
Jim Leach
#67. Folly it may seem. Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him ... . We live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp
J.R.R. Tolkien
#68. You can't divide a business like a sack of apples.
Edward Bernds
#69. In my own case, I employed this experiment mainly in order to seek for the barrier, if any, which divides our knowledge of the past from our knowledge of the future. And the odd thing was that there did not seem to be any such barrier at all.
J.W. Dunne
#70. Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.
Hamza Yusuf
#71. The things that unite us-America's past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us.
Ronald Reagan
#72. The world divides between those who can watch television knowing there's an isolated jigsaw fragment lying on the floor and those who can't.
Christina Hopkinson
#73. Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.
G.K. Chesterton
#74. Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#75. People stand themselves next to the righteous They believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one
Jackson Browne
#76. In order for one to discover Divine Truth, one must be willing and able to go beyond the religious dogma that divides, rather than unites, humanity.
Jason E. Marshall
#77. We are cursed with the blessing of consciousness and choice, a two-edged sword that both divides us and can help us become whole. But choosing wholeness, which sounds like a good thing, turns out to be risky business, making us vulnerable in ways we would prefer to avoid.
Parker J. Palmer
#78. We are not quite conscious of the reason for our disdain when we refer to the illiterate past as wallowing in ignorance ... What divides us from them is the column of print. Theirs was a total culture involving all the senses, while ours is a culture concentrated in the literate eye.
Nick Joaquin
#79. Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don't. Usually I think about my condominium.
Andy Warhol
#80. For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
Hanna Rosin
#82. We must confront persecution faced by many Christian communities and the intolerance that plagues us. We must overcome anti-Semitism and the prejudice that divides us. We must defeat Islamophobia and the fears that weaken us.
Ban Ki-moon
#83. The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it up and looks at parts in isolation.
John Mackey
#84. Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.
Suzy Kassem
#85. Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.
David Malouf
#86. Be you and embrace your differences as things that make you unique and special. "Different" shouldn't be considered confusing, negative, or something that divides us. It should be a quality we applaud and admire within ourselves and others.
Lily Collins
#87. What unites the church is infinitely more important than what divides us.
Nicky Gumbel
#88. The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#89. Absurdity is not an autonomous state; it does not exist in the world, but is instead exhaled from the abyss that divides us from a mute world.
Robert Zaretsky
#90. Pride divides the men, humility joins them.
Socrates
#91. God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them.
H.L. Mencken
#92. What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.
Edward Kennedy
#93. Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.
Fulton J. Sheen
#94. The national State divides its inhabitants into three classes: State citizens, State subjects, and foreigners. It must be held in greater honour to be a citizen of this Reich even if only a crossing-sweeper, than to be a king in a foreign State.
Adolf Hitler
#95. What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.
Matthew Macfadyen
#96. 2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history ; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.
Arthur C. Clarke
#97. A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.
Richard M. Nixon
#98. Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled
Neil Peart
#99. Do you think it's possible that love multiples? We're taught to think it divides. There's only so much to go around, like diamonds. It multiples.
Rita Mae Brown
#100. We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.
Herbert Spencer
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