Separation Quotes - page 12

Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing. (Dan Severson)
The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great. View quote
Liz Smith
Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker. View quote
Matisyahu
Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community. View quote
Maynard Jackson
Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life. View quote
Meredith Monk
There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with. View quote
Neill Blomkamp
There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other's domain. View quote
P. Sathasivam
There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation. View quote
Rachel Caine
It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers. View quote
Robert Byrd
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. View quote
Robert Rainy
One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains. (Ray Stannard Baker)
There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers. View quote
Ricardo Lagos
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions. View quote
Sharon Salzberg
The false separation between living and giving must end. View quote
Simon Mainwaring
I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it. View quote
Samantha Bond
Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit. All that exists is a magnificent interweaving, vast and reciprocal. View quote
Michel Houellebecq
The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue. View quote
Samuel Alito
Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history. View quote
James Madison
I am constrained to decline the designation of any period or mode as proper for the public manifestation of this reliance. I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree disturb the security which religion nowadays enjoys in this country in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government. View quote
Andrew Jackson
I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything. View quote
George Will
I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power. (George III of the United Kingdom)
Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation. View quote
Tennessee Williams
We call it a Society and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named 'fair competition' and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I recognize that there are bound to be misunderstandings under the conditions of wide separation between your countries and mine. But I believe the attitude of cooperation has been thoroughly proven. View quote
George C. Marshall
Listen to the flute it tells you a story' A story of nostalgia and separation. View quote
Mahmud Tarzi