Quotes About Partition

#1. She felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition had become so thin that practically (the feeling was one of relief and happiness) it was all one stream ...

Virginia Woolf

#2. Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,' she said. 'Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

William Dalrymple

#3. If there is a vote in Britain to leave the E.U. there is a democratic imperative to provide Irish citizens with the right to vote in a border poll to end partition and retain a role in the E.U.

Martin McGuinness

#4. Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. It could be an important feature to be added to your portrait: your mind has interior walls that allow you to partition different times in which to stop or flow, to concentrate alternately on parallel channels.

Italo Calvino

#6. But politeness and candour run together, when one is not fitting neither is the other. Then the occasion calls for silence, that frail partition between the ill-concealed and the ill-revealed, the clumsily false and the unavoidably so.

Samuel Beckett

#7. From the first day we have been fighting the wrong enemy; our common enemy is religion which dictates upon us division and partition.

M.F. Moonzajer

#8. However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.

Maimonides

#9. Just now and then, maybe every few weeks and then only for minutes at a time, a breach appeared in the partition and I walked on through, because I have always taken that as a general rule of life: If a door opens, walk on through and at least take a look around.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#10. Reality is such a pain. Those of us who were fed up with that kind of reality decided to remake it. We'd set up a partition, separate what's important to us from what was trash, put only the things we loved on our side, and got rid of the rest.

Ryohgo Narita

#11. Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?

Henry Maudsley

#12. The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized ... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.

Menachem Begin

#13. We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

Gerry Adams

#14. I understand Windows as well as most technical-support personnel. I can edit a config.sys file and delete bad lines in an autoexec.bat with the best of them. I can partition a hard drive in FAT32
But why would I want to?

Douglas Rushkoff

#15. The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

Mallory Ortberg

#16. Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

Eamon De Valera

#17. Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.

Robert Southey

#18. For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.

Marc Chagall

#19. The Zionists accepted the partition plan. The AHC and the Arab states rejected any proposal to share the land and vowed to drown the fledging Jewish state in rivers of blood.

Sol Stern

#20. Note that the hash function you pass will be compared by identity to that of other RDDs. If you want to partition multiple RDDs with the same partitioner, pass the same function object (e.g., a global function) instead of creating a new lambda for each one!

Holden Karau

#21. Maybe that's the thing I'd been missing about love. You don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved. You can't control it like that.

Penelope Douglas

#22. DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

Ambrose Bierce

#23. The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.

Pankaj Mishra

#24. the partition was rolled up for ventilation, and she was lying in her hammock reading one of the books Vernon had brought, a thriller called utopia.

Douglas Preston

#25. Maybe that's the thing I'd missed about love, you don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved."
#UntilYou

Penelope Douglas

#26. Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition.

Ovid

#27. I can't believe how much this place has grown," Hazel muttered.
The taxi driver grinned in the rearview mirror. "Been a long time since you visited, miss?"
"About seventy years," Hazel said.
The driver slid the glass partition closed and drove on in silence.

Rick Riordan

#28. After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.

Sam Manekshaw

#29. Spouse or collaborator, it comes to the same thing. And there is work to be done. Always, always work to be done." -David Leavitt, "Partition," _The Indian Clerk_

David Leavitt

#30. Divide and conquer - I mean, partition and replicate.

Anonymous

#31. Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.

Ellen G. White

#32. Ah, not to be cut off,
not through the slightest partition
shut out from the law of the stars.
The inner
what is it?
if not the intensified sky,
hurled through with birds and deep
with the winds of homecoming.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#33. A very practical way to control who can interact with you, your credentials and your reputation is to partition 'you' into the multiple personas formed from pseudonyms. This

David Birch

#34. It needs to be appreciated that despite political partition in 1947, the Indian Subcontinent continues to remain a single geographic entity, and as such dividing the natural resources equitably was and continues to remain a major challenge for the countries of the subcontinent. Water

A.K. Chaturvedi

#35. A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition of a much larger space in which mental processing takes place.

Thomas Metzinger

#36. Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa reveals the upheaval of partition through the eyes of a child, "Lame Lenny," a young Parsi girl crippled from polio. Lenny's world is her beloved and beautiful Hindu ayah and her ayah's many Muslim admirers, the cook Imam Din, and the Untouchable gardener.

Nancy Pearl

#37. National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

Park Geun-hye

#38. The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy

Seamus Costello

#39. And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.

Henry Lawson

#40. Only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

Helene Deutsch

#41. I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.

Umera Ahmad

#42. Had partition beencarried out, the history of our people would have been different and six millionJews in Europe would not have been killed
most of them would be inIsrael

David

#43. There can be no such things as an Irish nationalist accepting the loyalist veto and partition. You cannot claim to be an Irish nationalist if you consent to an internal six county settlement and if you are willing to negotiate the state of Irish society with a foreign government.

Gerry Adams

#44. We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

Fatos Nano

#45. The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be so contrived as to render the one independent of the other.

Alexander Hamilton

#46. So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

William Shakespeare

#47. Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.

Bashar Al-Assad

#48. What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

Shimon Peres

#49. I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one.

Yash Chopra

#50. In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.

Rumi

#51. European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.

Daniel Barenboim

#52. The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.

Czeslaw Milosz

#53. There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or love passes from the heart, and we feel the sorrow of partition.

Clive Barker

#54. Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries
slave of prejudice ... slave of religious fanaticism ... slave of barbarity and inhumanity.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#55. No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#56. Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Stanley Wolpert