Split Quotes - page 2

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. (Rumi)
If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up, not into the ordinary chemical atoms, but into these primordial atoms, which we shall for brevity call corpuscles; and if these corpuscles are charged with electricity and projected from the cathode by the electric field, they would behave exactly like the cathode rays. View quote
J. J. Thomson
You know, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew. View quote
Studs Terkel
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. View quote
Andy Warhol
The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside. View quote
Erich Fromm
What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land. View quote
Che Guevara
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of those came as a terrible shock and, like anything else that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After. View quote
Ransom Riggs
I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him. View quote
Max Schmeling
If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children. View quote
J. D. Salinger
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. (Alvar Aalto)
Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I'm just smoke. She can't touch me, right? He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB! View quote
Rick Riordan
We've arrived,” Leo announced. "Time to Split.” Frank groaned. "Can we leave Valdez in Croatia? View quote
Rick Riordan
Some people say "if we split up, we can cover more ground"-with blood. View quote
Seth Grahame-Smith
In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream? View quote
Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
I'm supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her. Without a moment's hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: "It depends on if you're drinking or pouring. View quote
Bill Cosby
the next morning, fang and i broke up. now let me get this strait, i broke up with him. a split second after he broke up with me. View quote
James Patterson
The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive. View quote
Loretta Young
It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't. (Antonia Fraser)
I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America. View quote
Chad Kroeger
Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong. View quote
Charles Evers
My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts. View quote
Chris LeDoux
In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it. View quote
Duke Snider