Top 100 Quotes About Divides
#1. In the Episcopal Church I find a healthy sense of unity and diversity. In this tradition we recognize that that which holds the church together is more important than that which divides the church.
Robert E. Webber
#2. Richard Barager has written THE novel of the Sixties - a passion-filled, pitch-perfect, roller coaster of a tale about the decade that divides us all.
David Horowitz
#3. Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
Hermann Bondi
#4. Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Alexander Pope
#5. An inverse operation multiplies to such a degree what concerns our welfare and divides by such a formidable figure what does not concern it, that the death of millions of unknown people hardly affects us more unpleasantly than a draught.
Marcel Proust
#6. Spring adds, summer multiplies, autumn subtracts, winter divides.
David Mitchell
#7. It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.
Elizabeth Kostova
#8. Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.
Oswald Chambers
#9. We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
Niels Bohr
#10. Nothing ever stops; it divides and multiplies, and I guess sometimes it gets ground down superfine, but it doesn't just blow away.
Ralph Ellison
#11. Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
Karl Kraus
#12. Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.
Deepak Chopra
#13. I cannot stand repetition: routine divides me from potential novelties within my reach.
Clarice Lispector
#14. Divides into three classes,
things to be enjoyed, things to be used, and things which use and enjoy.
Augustine Of Hippo
#15. Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
George Eliot
#16. Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks; fiction is flowing water.
Elif Shafak
#17. Language divides us into fragments, I wanted to be whole.
Margaret Atwood
#20. Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.
Octavio Paz
#21. I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
Guillaume Apollinaire
#22. It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
Annie Dillard
#23. Mankind divides itself into two classes,
benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#24. Each substance of grief hath twenty shadows, which shows like grief itself, but is not so; or sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, divides one thing entire to many objects: like perspectives which, rightly gaz'd upon, show nothing but confusion:
William Shakespeare
#25. Love subtracts sorrow,
divides trouble,
adds blessings,
and multiplies joy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#26. Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions ...
As distance always doesn't ensure solutions
Adil Adam Memon
#27. Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
#28. The world divides into those who like the managed induction of terror and those who don't. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying.
David Foster Wallace
#29. The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
Christopher Lasch
#30. I'm in love. Twice. It's not a love that divides fifty-fifty. It's not a love that's split between good and bad, safe and dangerous, real and imaginary. It's all mixed up, confused, good, bad and ugly love times two, and it's all mine.
Liz Reinhardt
#31. The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
Mitt Romney
#32. It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.
Grover Norquist
#33. We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
Charlie Dent
#34. What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.
Michel Foucault
#35. Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.
Allen Lacy
#36. David McKnight gives us the tools to work out where we stand - and what unites rather than divides us - as the struggle to defend our democracy begins in earnest
Margo Kingston
#37. I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
Twyla Tharp
#38. '3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it's a very fine line that divides these two.
Christian Bale
#39. It is a great privilege to meet inspiring leaders from different parts of the church - Catholic, Baptist, Salvation Army, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, and so many more - and discover that what unites us is infinitely greater than what divides us.
Nicky Gumbel
#40. An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other.
Fred Upton
#41. Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.
Robert Southey
#43. What is shared in common is infinitely more significant than what apparently divides.
Dave Mearns
#44. While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.
Harvey Fierstein
#46. Consciousness divides Reality. It conceptualises it, packages it, and explains it to itself. Then in our ignorance, we think it's taking readings on things 'out there.
Steve Hagen
#48. Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.
Ayn Rand
#49. Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere
Gerrard Winstanley
#50. An ideology that divides the world into those who are worth more and those who are worth less, into superior and inferior beings, does not have to reach the dimensions of the German genocide to be wrong.
Amira Hass
#51. The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#52. Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#53. Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question - do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa?
Hedy Lamarr
#54. Doctrine divides, but doctrine also unites. It binds together the hearts of God's people who celebrate the truth of God together.
R.C. Sproul
#55. The Bani Yas Arab merchants lived mostly in Deira, on the north side of the creek that divides Dubai. The Persian merchants lived on the south side. The ruler, too, lived on the south side of the creek, in what often is seen as a residential indication of partiality.89
Michael Herb
#56. I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
Tony Blair
#57. It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and that the line which divides these extremes should be so inaccurately defined by experience.
James Madison
#58. There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.
Michael Eric Dyson
#59. The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.
Andy Stern
#60. Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
Lawrence Durrell
#61. It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.
Nelson Mandela
#62. I always found strange comfort that the American propensity for mixing alcohol and firearms cut across racial, socioeconomic, and cultural divides, from rural redneck to ghetto gangbanger to skeet-shooting blue blood.
Brad Parks
#63. But for someone like me, who moved into an entirely different world when still quite young, it's as if a deep gap divides my past and my present.
Minae Mizumura
#64. In the beginning," Scripture taught, "there was the Word," and Danny would come to believe that the two great gifts his God had given to the species He loved were time, which divides experience, and language, which binds the past to the future.
Mary Doria Russell
#65. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein
#66. These stark divides prompt a simple but fundamental question: why can't White Christian America understand how African Americans feel about the black men who have died at the hands of white police officers? To
Robert P. Jones
#67. I was afraid of what he might be able to see. Because all of a suddent it didn't feel like we were standing on the beach anymore. It felt like we were balanced on a thin, thin line. That fragile one that divides the invisible space between something and nothing, or before and after.
Jessi Kirby
#68. Sport allows people to come together, but politics divides people.
Francois Hollande
#69. Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.
George H. W. Bush
#70. Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and the limited role of reason in human affairs.
Thomas Szasz
#71. Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Max Muller
#72. I seem to grasp at certain moments the nuance that divides bad from worse.
Samuel Beckett
#73. I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.
Joe Lieberman
#74. I love you. It was the tie that bound, even across the divides of death and time.
J.R. Ward
#75. There's a fine line that divides pleasure and pain," he told her as he removed the butt plug from the tray, and the tube of lubricant. "It's so slim, that if went about the right way, the pain adds to the pleasure, in a dark erotic manner.
Lora Leigh
#76. Whereas devotees of globalization stress what unifies humankind, traditional realists stress what divides us.
Robert D. Kaplan
#77. The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.
Thomas Jefferson
#78. The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values. People who share that commitment can collaborate across cultural divides.
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
#79. We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.
Alan Cheuse
#80. Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.
Caitlin Moran
#81. Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.
George Bernard Shaw
#82. The moon is up, and yet it is not night,
The sun as yet divides the day with her.
George Gordon Byron
#83. Nothing divides one so much as thought.
R.H. Blyth
#84. ... Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#85. The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together.
Barack Obama
#86. I want to be a person who has her eyes on what unites people, not what divides us.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#87. Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another ... Inequality undermines democracy.
George Packer
#88. The river of life divides into two branches: being and formulating.
Anais Nin
#89. Further communication with her husband seemed hopeless. Between them yawned the chasm that divides those who have consumed champagne before breakfast from those who have not.
Helen Cresswell
#90. You can't divide human beings into the "those who make sacrifices" and "those who don't." We all carry things in our hearts for which we are very willing to make sacrifices. The issue that divides us is for what, or for whom, are we willing to make these personal sacrifices.
Paul David Tripp
#91. Concerning the utility of Rhetoric, it is to be observed that it divides itself into two; first, whether Oratorical skill be, on the whole, a public benefit, or evil; and secondly, whether any artificial system of Rules is conducive to the attainment of that skill.
Richard Whately
#92. 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.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#93. Religion is the source of major conflicts in the world. It divides the human race, and in the name of God those who follow sectarian religion have caused more bloodshed and destruction of human progress than any other force in the world.
Sibaprasad Dutta
#96. The majority is by no means omniscient just because it is the majority. In fact, I've found that the line which divides majority opinion from mass hysteria is often so fine as to be virtually invisible.
J. Paul Getty
#97. In the study of scientific atheism, there was the idea that religion divides people. Now we see the opposite: love for God can only unite.
Philip Yancey
#98. Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.
Sargent Shriver
#99. Oliver used to have a theory he called Love, etc.: in other words the world divides into people for whom love is everything and the rest of life is a mere 'etc.,' and people who don't value love enough and find the most exciting part of life is the 'etc.
Julian Barnes
#100. The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
Grace Paley
