Severing Quotes

#1. I do so love the art of severing boundaries

Poppet

#2. Perhaps death represents the severing of the living organism's connection with the orderly quantum realm, leaving it powerless to resist the randomizing forces of thermodynamics.

Jim Al-Khalili

#3. Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as cleanly as any surgeon's blade.

Kristin Hannah

#4. It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.

Tammara Webber

#5. The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

David Foster Wallace

#6. Each of us has an inner compass. Its voice calls us to our highest good. Sometimes it requires that we alter a longstanding but stifling situation. It is difficult to face the severing or alteration of a relationship even when we know such change is for the highest good.

Julia Cameron

#7. I, Nikolai Ivanov, renounce my father, an ex-priest, because for many years he deceived the people by telling them that God exists, and that is the reason I am severing all my relations with him.77

Orlando Figes

#8. As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

Robin Hobb

#9. Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth of a totalitarian state, and destroy the economic progress that this country has so dearly bought.

Henry Hazlitt

#10. No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.

Sam Kean

#11. Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line,
Severing rightly his from thine,
Which is human, which divine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. I'm clawing at something that doesn't want me. And to say goodbye is like severing a part of me that I can't easily replace.

Krista Ritchie

#13. encourages the growth, repair and the formation of new neural connections with use while deactivating or severing neural connections

Victor Menderez

#14. The severing of his limbs and subsequent cauterizing of the wounds was not the most pleasurable part, no. His mad grin stretched, it seemed, from ear to ear.

Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#15. Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

Henry Beard

#16. Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world.

Simon Reynolds

#17. There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

Saint Augustine

#18. People whose lives were determined for them by a group of politicians whose severing, dissecting and reattaching of their lands has turned their world into a monster that not even its creator can control.

Aysha Taryam

#19. Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#20. Every year of my life, my dad has sent me a Valentine's Day gift. Whether I was in the same house or across the country, he always sent something.

Sevyn Streeter

#21. When we have 13,000 Americans living on the moon, they can petition to become a state,

Newt Gingrich

#22. Had he done it for her? "I know," said Iko with a dreaminess in her tone, though Cinder hadn't said anything. "He's fantastic." When

Marissa Meyer

#23. Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#24. Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

Napoleon Bonaparte

#25. I think that I have grown a lot as an artist. I have been writing about my experiences of love and overcoming the struggles that I have faced in the music industry. I have so much more to tell my fans, and I know so much more about myself. It is crazy how much I have grown over these past years.

Jessica Sanchez

#26. Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

#27. I think the value of a relationship is not how long it is but how much it helps you to grow as a human being ... how much it affected your life and how much it affected your partner's.

Fritz Diantan

#28. Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

Kal Penn