Splits Quotes - Page 30

• October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!

  Rainbow Rowell

  Autumn, Nurse, Grace

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• Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

  "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov. Chapter 25, 1983.

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• What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.

  Peter Straub

  Jumping, Pigs, Ordinary World

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• We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Workout, Bad Day

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• Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

  Robert E. Howard

  Live Life, Men, Civilization

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands”, p.31, Del Rey

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• What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Truth, World, Ifs

  "Käthe Kollwitz" sec. 3, l. 25 (1968)

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• The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.

  Beth Moore

  Angel, Fighting, Enemy

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