Splits Quotes - Page 25

• I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Feet, World, Sometimes

  Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

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• I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

  Jean Gabin

  Song, Thinking, Sight

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• Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

  Plato

  Political, Unity, Cohesion

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• Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit the split time to the hundredth, then swim back again for as many times as I need to finish the race.

  Michael Phelps

  Wall, Night, Race

  Michael Phelps (2016). “Beneath the Surface: My Story”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all.

  Jane Green

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Jane Green (2001). “Mr. Maybe”, p.18, Broadway Books

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• The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, Men, Bottles

  Quoted in Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett POPism: The Warhol '60s (1980).

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• Passion begins with a burden and a split-second moment, when you understand something like never before. That burden is on those who know. Those who don't know are at peace. Those of us who do know get disturbed and are forced to take action.

  Wangari Maathai

  Passion, Action, Moments

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• Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.

  Maurice Sendak

  Artist, Blow, Rocks

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• Friends: how many have 'em?
  How long before they split like atoms?
  Don't ask me, but what I do stand behind
  Is someone havin' your back seems hard to find.

  Kelvin Mercer

  Rap, Long, Hip Hop

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• In the hidden order of reality, there is no distinction between mind and matter. The split between inner and outer - subjective and objective - that we experience in ordinary life is unknown in the deeper reality.

  Robert Moss

  Life, Reality, Order

  Robert Moss (2010). “The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination”, p.111, New World Library

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• Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Philosophical, Erotic

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.199, Routledge

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• A split personality can never become non-greedy. It can try, but it can never become. A split personality can never go beyond anger. It can try, but it can never go beyond. A split personality can never go beyond sex. It can fight. So many monks in the monasteries are doing it. They don't go beyond sex; at the most their sexuality becomes perverted, their love becomes poisoned.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Fighting, Love Is

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• I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.

  Minnie Driver

  Best Friend, Good Friend, Parent

  "Minnie Driver: My family values" by Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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• To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Passion, Heart, Kissing

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, People, Leader

  Adolf Hitler, General Press (2016). “Mein Kampf: (My Struggle)”, p.105, GENERAL PRESS

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• There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.

  Andrea Levy

  Two, Long, World

  Andrea Levy (2010). “Small Island: A Novel”, p.446, Macmillan

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• We could fight the fuss till we get like friends,
  Or somebody bite the dust and we split like ends.
  Even in our wildest moments, girl, I'm on it cause you're worth it.
  Practice makes perfect, so we fightin' for a purpose.

  ASAP Rocky

  Girl, Rap, Fighting

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• Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Growing Up, Parent, Croatia

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• In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness

  Laura Mulvey

  Strong, Impact, Erotic

  Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.19, Springer

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• One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.

  Alvin Toffler

  Civilization, Skills, Together Again

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• Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Air, Pieces, Aviation

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• You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?

  Al Pacino

  Dream, Ego, Grease

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• I am the best wrestler in the world. I've been the best ever since day one when I walked into this company, and I've been vilified and hated since that day because Paul Heyman saw something in me that nobody else wanted to admit. That's right, I'm a Paul Heyman guy. You know who else was a Paul Heyman guy? Brock Lesnar, and he split just like I'm splitting, but the biggest difference between me and Brock is I'm going to leave with the WWE Championship.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Differences, Guy

  TV Series "WWE Raw" (June 27, 2011), (1993– ).

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• He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

  H. G. Wells

  Struggle, Sweat, Verbs

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• I love animals. I couldn't eat a whole one but I'll split one with you if you want.

  Greg Proops

  Animal, Want, Whole

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