Top 100 Quotes About Separating
#1. There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.
Werner Heisenberg
#2. There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right!
Henry Ford
#3. how long can we maintain the wall separating the department of biology from the departments of law and political science?
Yuval Noah Harari
#4. Until Edison invented the electric light, most of the world was totally covered in darkness. The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed together, with no boundary separating the two.
Haruki Murakami
#5. There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.
Leo Tolstoy
#6. The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.
Johann Georg Hamann
#8. A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student.
Richard Rodriguez
#9. Divorce is not merely separating; it is the tearing apart of what was once joined together.
T.D. Jakes
#10. If you can't test it, it's not theorics
it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.
Neal Stephenson
#11. Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
Pamela Anderson
#12. When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#13. Separating her thighs. The scent of her arousal hardened every muscle in his body. He moved his hand down her hip and then to her hot, warm core.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#14. I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
James Wolcott
#15. The key ingredient to better content is separating the single from the stream.
David Hahn
#16. 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
#17. It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
G.K. Chesterton
#18. One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.
Ben Carson
#19. It seemed there was no separating the girl from the wings. One could not survive without the other.
Leslye Walton
#20. In love afairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.
Anne Bronte
#21. You can go out and you can run ads all day long on Donald Trump and what he says about women, and you haven't even gotten close to separating his supporters from him, 'cause that's not why they're there.
Rush Limbaugh
#22. It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.
John Henrik Clarke
#23. The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.
D.H. Lawrence
#24. By the late '60s, the culture gap separating young people from their parents was perhaps greater than at any point since the early 19th century.
Tony Judt
#25. To shave off the beard (or any body hair) is to symbolically annihilate the (essentially specious) boundary separating Self from Other
Neal Stephenson
#26. The only thing separating us from that existence rather than the one we find ourselves in is one small decision. I make wrong decisions every day.
Elizabeth Finn
#27. Racism has always been a divisive force separating black men and white men, and sexism has been a force that unites the two groups.
Bell Hooks
#28. The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart.
David Brooks
#29. Any system of periodization is thus inevitably social, since our ability to envision the historical watersheds separating one conventional "period" from another is basically a product of being socialized into specific traditions of carving the past.
Eviatar Zerubavel
#30. Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.
Oswald Spengler
#31. The problem is that faith based upon twisted information is nothing more than delusion - and delusion leads to division. It divided humanity, taking us into endless wars - separating us by race, religion, and politics.
R. Brown
#32. I think that today, integration is the name of the game and not separating these things out, and not trying to find the razor's edge, the narrow path. There's a lot of lanes in the highway, the trick is not fall into the ditches on either side, like a one sided nihilism, nothing matters life.
Surya Das
#33. Sometimes what looks like generosity can be control.You think you're being swept up in this big romance, but really it's all about separating you from your own life.
Lilah Pace
#34. I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.
Bell Hooks
#35. No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines
ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it is arbitrary, without it, we're lost, wholly incapable of separating the Romantic from the Victorian in our sad, bewildering lives ...
Marisha Pessl
#36. It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.
John Irving
#37. My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
Naveen Jain
#38. No mortal thing has a beginning, nor does it end in death and obliteration; there is only a mixing and then separating of what was mixed, but by mortal men these processes are named "beginnings.
Empedocles
#39. I think we have the same goals in mind. We are not planning on just all of a sudden taking a film and separating. Hopefully one day she can direct me in something, or I will direct her. Or we'll produce a movie under our company's name.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#40. [T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.
Amit Chaudhuri
#41. I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them.
Lois Lowry
#42. I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do.
Vanessa Hudgens
#43. So I guess I wonder, where is the line separating me into this culture or that culture, saying I have less or more? I'm just me, and like most people, I've had my heart broken a few times, but for the most part I have been Happy.
Eowyn Ivey
#44. Some people are so stupid that they actually think there are thick neon lines separating good and evil. That it's easy to make that kind of distinction and go to sleep at night with a clear conscience.
Tahereh Mafi
#45. Obama liberals, in their incalculable arrogance, believe they are smart enough to defy everything we know about human nature, economics and history by insisting on separating financial efforts from rewards and pretending this can bring prosperity.
David Limbaugh
#46. We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.
George Washington
#47. I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating out how we live with where we live, and what ails us with the environment we're in.
Claudia Rankine
#48. I follow his eyes to the pane of glass separating us from reality and I wait for his lips to part; I wait to listen to him speak . And then I try to pay attention as his words bounce around in the haze of my head, fogging my senses, misting my eyes, clouding my concentration.
Tahereh Mafi
#49. It's not the fat that's making you fat: it's not understanding separating carbohydrates from protein and fat.
Suzanne Somers
#50. We walked for a long time. We kissed, we embraced on the Lungarno, I asked him, half serious, half joking, if he wanted to sneak into my room. He shook his head, he went back to kissing me passionately. There were entire libraries separating him and Antonio, but they were similar.
Elena Ferrante
#51. The cream and hot butter mingled and overflowed separating each glucose bead of caviar from its fellows, capping it in white and gold.
Evelyn Waugh
#52. To say I believe time is fluid, and so are the boundaries between human beings, the border separating helper from the one who hurts always blurry.
Lauren Slater
#53. I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.
Criss Jami
#54. Kilorn shoulders his way to my side, separating us before I can tell Cal my strength and my ability are all I'm sure of now. The electricity in my veins might be the only thing I trust in this world. I
Victoria Aveyard
#55. We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.
Janet Jackson
#56. I prefer to sing in the shower vs. the car. The shower is just steam, you know, its just you, and nature, and no clothing. You know, there's nothing separating you. It's just you, and the voice - you, and the water.
Jacob Lusk
#57. Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.
Paolo Giordano
#58. These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions.
Atom Egoyan
#59. And verily the Lord beheld Adam, who He had fashioned in His image, and thought to Himself, 'I had better give him some appendages for the separating of eggs,' and thus He gave man two hands for that purpose, and lo, eggs were separated, and it was good.
Alexis Hall
#60. In the druidical religion of liberalism, not separating your recyclables is a sin, but abortion is just a medical procedure.
Ann Coulter
#62. What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.
Ed O'Brien
#63. But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.
Audrey Meadows
#64. I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.
Jeanne Moreau
#65. I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.
Rory Bremner
#66. Today, the Muslim world is injured and corrupt people who are the enemies of all Muslims are trying to cause disunity in the Islamic world by intensifying ethnic difference and separating people under names such as 'Shia and Sunni', 'Arabs and non Arabs'.
Ali Khamenei
#67. the thing separating them was only a door and not a wall. He said nothing, merely nodded and thought to himself that worse than any wall is a door to which one has never had the key, a key he didn't know where to find, or even if it existed.
Jose Saramago
#68. In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.
Fulton J. Sheen
#69. Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
Ferdinand De Saussure
#70. I know that The Other Side, and the spirits who live there, are as real as this earth we live on, and that the only thing separating "her" from "there" is a thinly veiled difference in vibrational frequency.
Sylvia Browne
#72. When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
Lao-Tzu
#73. I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries,
shutting out and shutting in, separating inside
from outside: I have
drawn no lines
A.R. Ammons
#74. Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they're going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.
Sebastian Stan
#75. It seems to me the fence separating us from who we are and who we can be is not a straight line, not erect, but something wavering and distant, a reflection of who we are and what we fear.
Chloe Thurlow
#76. Language is still separating us even though technology is bringing us closer together.
Suzy Kassem
#77. [The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.
Joyce Meyer
#78. It's pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.
Haruki Murakami
#79. The great tragedy of segregation isn't so much that we see less of each other but that in separating from each other we see less of God.
Tullian Tchividjian
#80. [Duration is] the form which the succession of our conscious states assumes when our ego lets itself live, when it refrains from separating its present state from its former state.
Henri Bergson
#81. I kept thinking about how you might never know that I missed you with only an ocean between us. But if it was death separating us ... I would find you. I don't care how many rules it would break. Even if I had to get all three keys myself and open a gate, I would find you again. Always.
Sarah J. Maas
#82. My universe does not have time," the foreign God replied. "I find it cruel, like death and distance and misunderstanding, barriers separating that which would rather be whole. I
Ada Palmer
#83. It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.
Alain Badiou
#84. Although separating mitochondria and microsomes might appear worlds apart from the determination of the molecular weight of macromolecules, certain concepts were common to the two operations and could be usefully transposed from the latter to the former.
Christian De Duve
#85. We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.
Keke Palmer
#86. The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
Noam Chomsky
#87. All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.
Patti Smith
#88. It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.
Paulo Coelho
#89. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
Albert Einstein
#90. Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
Denis Diderot
#91. Separating the God question from Buddhism does not make Buddhists atheists - within silence lies mystery. That doesn't mean, however, we should infer from this acknowledgement of the mystery a nod one way or another on the matter of the divine.
Andrew Furst
#92. What is this thing that has us chewing at our own selves, grating ourselves against our own sharp sieve? It is the act of stepping back. It is the act of separating, and judging. It takes only one because the one becomes two.
Bonnie Friedman
#93. If you live in a world where the population is separating itself from science and entering an age of superstition, as a marketer, selling to people who will believe anything, it is a golden age.
Daniel Henninger
#94. Time gnaws and wears away; it separates; it flies. And by virtue of separation--by separating man from his pain or from the object of his pain--time cures.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#95. By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.
Seth Lloyd
#96. DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
Ambrose Bierce
#97. I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened in the long run by a departure from governmental neutrality in spiritual matters.
Sargent Shriver
#98. True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.
Thomas Aquinas
#99. The only thing separating Americans and Brits is a comman language.
H.P. Mallory
#100. And then they were staring again. And it happened again, just as it had in the theater yesterday. Time slowed, atoms and particles separating and recombining in a secret sphere around them.
Suanne Laqueur