Splits Quotes

• Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mistake, Failure, Positive Thinking

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.10.

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• My life was split by two worlds, but he kept me whole.

  Richelle Mead

  Two, World, Whole

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1494, Zebra Books

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• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stress, Tears, Power Of Now

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.84, New World Library

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• That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use it means - Nothing !

  Peter Ritchie Calder

  Mean, Science, Thinking

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• Scientists are like atomic nuclei. They are more easily split than fused.

  Charles Osgood

  Nucleus, Scientist

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• A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Epic, Law, Legs

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• True healing comes from owning and accepting all of life's energies within ourselves....When they are allowed to be expressed, they take their places as important facets of our nature. There is no split between 'good' and 'bad.'

  Shakti Gawain

  Healing, Important, Energy

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Awakening: A Daily Guide to Conscious Living”, New World Library

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• To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do

  Ani DiFranco

  Two, Radical, Can Do

  Song: Reprieve, Album: Reprieve, 2006

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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.

  Jandy Nelson

  Want, Saws

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.140, Penguin

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• You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Thinking, Order, Way

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  God, Sky, Two

  "Renascence" l. 207 (1917)

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• Because in a split second, it's gone.

  Ayrton Senna

  Gone

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• So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.'

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Tuesday

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• There cannot be an animal body without a territorial body: three bodies are grafted over each other: the territorial body - the planet, the social body - the couple, and the animal body - you and me. And technology splits this unity, leaving us without a sense of where we are. This, too, is de-realization.

  Paul Virilio

  Couple, Technology, Animal

  Source: ctheory.net

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• When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

  Raymond Chandler

  Grammar, Damn, Infinitive

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• The future is a split second away.

  Ana Monnar

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• Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to life. It only brings misery, anxiety, torture, and tension, because whenever you do anything halfheartedly you are dividing yourself into two parts, and that is one of the greatest calamities that has happened to human beings - they are all split.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Heart, Two

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• The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams.

  Ovid

  Rivers, Force, Streams

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.359, Delphi Classics

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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.

  David Foster Wallace

  Hypocrisy, Irony, Flaws

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• I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Growing Up, Gymnastics, Stills

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

  Plato

  Two, Greek, Half

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• Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.

  Mikhail Prokhorov

  Doors, Lord

  "Prokhorov Isn’t Selling Team, Or Getting Married But Will Get Even With Kidd" by Spencer Lund, uproxx.com. November 4, 2014.

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• I like to do the splits onstage

  Gavin DeGraw

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• Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

  Alexander Lowen

  Attitude, Feelings, Body

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• Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

  Rebecca Wells

  Depression, People, Earth

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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