Quotes About Separates

#1. But metaphors can reduce the distance." "We're not metaphors." "I know, but metaphors eliminates what separates you and me.

Haruki Murakami

#2. I am the goddess of the Mist," Hecate explained. "I am responsible for keeping the veil that separates the world of the gods from

Rick Riordan

#3. She say guilt is a useless emotion."
"Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

Anna Quindlen

#4. Rome changed the New Testament catholicity (which purifies and sanctifies as it's proper domain the whole of life) and has substituted in its place a dualism which separates the supernatural from the natural.

Henry R. Van Til

#5. The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians.

Eric Corley

#6. Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.

Helen Keller

#7. Yes, they know her. They touch her lips, gather her words, fly away with the message, disappear into the dark. Pass through the membrane that separates this world from the unseen world that lies just underneath it.

Margaret Atwood

#8. I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.

Hank Aaron

#9. Where's the line, Sarah? What separates an informal effort from a rogue operation?" "Success," she countered. "And secrecy.

Matthew Palmer

#10. And there was something I've since noticed over the years - the mountain range that separates the naked from the clothed man. Two men on one passport.

Ian McEwan

#11. There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the same arenas. The only thing that separates them is radio, but the artist doesn't control who goes to radio and who doesn't.

Lupe Fiasco

#12. Pantheism identifies man with Nature. whether its visible appearance, or its abstract essence. Personalism isolates, separates him from Nature; converts him from a part into the whole, into an absolute essence by himself.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#13. Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys.

Steve Farrar

#14. What separates courage from fear are the thoughts we choose to believe.

Charles F. Glassman

#15. The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.

Igor Stravinsky

#16. It is the duty that separates men from boys

Aporva Kala

#17. If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from the rest of the other species. It's that we discover and pioneer.

Pharrell Williams

#18. What treaty is it that finally separates those two territories, the hard resolve of our exteriors and the terrible disaster on our insides?

Ben Marcus

#19. I've learned that being a superhero isn't all glitz and glamour. We think if we have a special power, our problem will go away. It's just a new set of problems. Being a superhero alienates you and separates you from humanity. As Spiderman famously said, 'With great power comes great responsibility.'

Josh Keaton

#20. Making yourself a corporation (or just thinking of yourself in that way) reinforces the idea of professionalism because it separates the artist-doing-the-work from the will-and-consciousness-running-the-show.

Steven Pressfield

#21. Sure, I'm gray-shading the line that separates stable and crazy, but the point is, there is a line. And I haven't completely crossed over to lunatic.

Anna Banks

#22. Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil.

Sheri L. Dew

#23. You think civilization is some horrible, polluting human invention that separates us from the state of nature. But civilization doesn't separate us from nature. Civilization protects us from nature.

CRICHTON Michael

#24. Do you know what truly, honestly separates people who succeed from those who fail? It's simple: People who do the work succeed. People who don't fail.

Sean Platt

#25. But perhaps no distance is greater than that which separates a poor family in the same country

Halldor Laxness

#26. There is a fine line that separates thinking you know something, and actually knowing the truth. It is a line as thin as a strand of hair, and it's called hope.

Jason Pellegrini

#27. We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Franz Kafka

#28. Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Akon

#29. However, sexual anorexics do have a definite profile that separates them from the larger population of those having difficulty being sexual: They are often extremely competent people who are committed to doing things very well and have a fear of making mistakes and being human.

Patrick J. Carnes

#30. What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Brene Brown

#31. Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.

Carl Sagan

#32. I have met many Masters and most have an abundance of flaws and social failings. However, the one thing that separates them from the rest of us is their fearless ability to walk their own path regardless of the opinions of others.

Gary Hopkins

#33. Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God who has created us to simply be happy and to progress.

Toni Sorenson

#34. The Hulk was a unique character because of his strength and power. He doesn't have a costume like Spiderman or like Superman - The Hulk is more visual. His passion and his strength, that is what separates him from anything else.

Lou Ferrigno

#35. The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.

Ellen G. White

#36. What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

Albert Einstein

#37. Most people never ask. And that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them.

Liz Wiseman

#38. Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Kathryn Stockett

#39. Life sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.

Paulo Coelho

#40. We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A hero will see his past as experience, to be acknowledged and incorporated into the present.

Mitch Rowland

#41. Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

Tom Perrotta

#42. Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

Joan Rivers

#43. What happened to me separates me from the normal world in a negative way. Like a handicap or disfiguring deformity, it's too horrible for some people to deal with, and it makes them uncomfortable whenever they're around me. ~Leigh Byrne, Call Me Tuesday

Leigh Byrne

#44. One day they'll let you out of that dry, empty cell. You'll return to the Separates, and you'll feel the rain once more. And you'll grow straight, this time, toward this sunlight. I know you will.

Lucy Christopher

#45. Flow neatly separates the two forms of effort: concentration on the task and the deliberate control of attention.

Daniel Kahneman

#46. Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bigger the dream, the bigger the disappointment.

Vikas Swarup

#47. I believe in times of adversity there's a line that is sometimes drawn, a line that separates your old life from your new. You cross the line, you'll never be the same.

Kresley Cole

#48. Action separates the heroes from the cowards, the achievers from the complainers, the successful from the mere dreamers, the happy from the envious; it separates those who rise to the challenge of their goals from the haters who cower in the shadow of stagnancy.

Steve Maraboli

#49. Dissociated trauma memories are not attached to other memories by association. These memories go directly to the unconscious as a biological response separates awareness from consciousness. It's a natural, protective occurrence and it happens without will.

Jeanne McElvaney

#50. A wall of rock separates us, but I can still feel him. I press my hand on to the cold stone.

Dannielle Wicks

#51. When I go into the studio - it [words] has to sound the way I heard it in my head. So that's probably one of the biggest things that separates me when I'm working in the studio - just how I hear certain things.

Kendrick Lamar

#52. What really separates people who are habitually upbeat and optimistic from those who are consistently miserable is how the circumstances of life are interpreted and processed.

Robin S. Sharma

#53. Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

Garry Kasparov

#54. Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

T Bone Burnett

#55. Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Simone Weil

#56. Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

David McCullough

#57. I stare at the long, almost elegant thinness of the wrist bone jutting out from a heap of flesh and cloth. All that separates us, that poor woman and me, is an accident of birth.

L.E. Sterling

#58. Effective leaders....always rise to a challenge. That's one of the things that separates winners from whiners.....Walton rose above it by solving his problems with creativity and tenacity.


Anyone who expects the road to be easy will continually find himself in trouble.

John C. Maxwell

#59. The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

Kedar Joshi

#60. I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.

Roberto Bolano

#61. Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don't we secretly clasp each other's hands?

Bruno Schulz

#62. The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. ... Every separation is a link.

Simone Weil

#63. Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros.

Blaine Hogan

#64. Our inner battle is the wall that separates us from our own light.

Margrit Irgang

#65. The notion of feelings as an integral part of illness is universal - not only across continents and peoples, but across the divide of time that separates us from our ancestors.

Esther M. Sternberg

#66. There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#67. Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that's what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.

Steve Jobs

#68. Law is all that separates us from barbarism and the howling within; it is a necessary leash on our darker natures.

Kevin Hearne

#69. I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and terrifies. Throughout human history, it is an idea that seems sometimes to have caused whole populations to rise up and slaughter one another.

Robert Winston

#70. In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.

Dana Rohrabacher

#71. People who have achieved great success are not necessarily more skillful or intelligent than others. What separates them is their burning desire and thirst for knowledge. The more one knows, the more one achieves.

Robin Sharma

#72. Honor is the only thing that separates us from animals.

Peter Tieryas

#73. The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

Shirley Knight

#74. So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.

Stephen King

#75. Purpose is the great divider that separates those who are simply living, from those who are truly alive.

Alex Rogers

#76. What separates the heroes from the villains? One speech in the night?

Brandon Sanderson

#77. Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

Warren Buffett

#78. Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.

Travis Bradberry

#79. Art leaves something to the listener; that's what separates art from craft.

Henry Threadgill

#80. WL's [White Liberals] think all the world's problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don't believe that. There's a lot to be said for sacrifice, remorse, even pity. It's what separates us from roaches

Paul Farmer

#81. I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

Barbara Kingsolver

#82. A woman's confidence separates the men from the boys.

Sanjo Jendayi

#83. The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

Thornton Wilder

#84. The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

Anton Chekhov

#85. The end is the same. It is the path that separates men. When we taste that end, we will do so with our heads held high, eyes to the sun.

Brandon Sanderson

#86. Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.

Alice Hoffman

#87. In the studio, you can always stop, rewind and do it again, but on stage, you can never do that - it's a different energy. It separates good bands from bad bands, being able to play, perform and really capture an audience. I think that's the hardest part.

Alison Mosshart

#88. And this is the worse part of it - when you realize that what separates you, someone who can leave, from someone who is trapped in Aleppo, or Homs or Douma or Darayya, is that you can walk away and go back to your home with electricity and sliced bread; then you begin to feel ashamed to be human.

Janine Di Giovanni

#89. There is a difference between obsessive perfectionism and taking time to create something that is the best you can offer. Knowing what needs to be better and stretching to improve yourself is what separates the mediocre from the marvelous.

Suzanna Reeves

#90. Revenge is good. It's what separates us from the animals and the hippies.

Christopher Titus

#91. The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence without that affects him after his birth.

Francis Galton

#92. There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

Paul Pierce

#93. There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past.

James Rozoff

#94. That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.

Craig Ferguson

#95. Knowledge does not equate to intelligence. It is the application of knowledge that separates the genius from the fool.

Niquenya D. Fulbright

#96. Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

Mary Ritter Beard

#97. You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

Pat Summitt

#98. Palming separates the men from the boys!

Ed Marlo

#99. I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.

Ann Leckie

#100. I really, really don't think that, outside of maybe some pink wigs, [that] there's anything that separates me from every other woman in America.

Nicki Minaj