Quentin Reynolds
Writer
"The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us."
Splits quotes
Splits
202 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top."
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form . . ."
Plato
Philosopher
"Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?"
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside."
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"God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology."
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"If someone does not have a specific charity they would like to donate to, that's OK. An undesignated donation would be split up evenly amongst all the charities supported by the Annapolis Area Complex."
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"For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway."
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"I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it."
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"A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away"
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"Have you ever tried to split sawdust?"
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"The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates."
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"Life would split apart without letters."
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"For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart"
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"Music is split up now into little pockets."
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"Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated."
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"It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate into nothingness. And the incredible thing is that God breaths this breath and keeps each of us in existence, in being, even when we chose to reject God. Now if I had that kind of power I would snuff you out! But God doesn't."
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"To boldly split infinitives that no man had split before."
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"It was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. There were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tried to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there."
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"But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?"
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"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split."
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"Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?"
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"Whoever says the Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll."
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"The best way to carve is not to split."
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"In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not."
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