Split Quotes

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. (Pearl S. Buck)
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
Have you ever tried to split sawdust? View quote
Eugene McCarthy
Many 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. View quote
Rebecca Wells
The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness. View quote
Chris Evans
Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer. View quote
Zakk Wylde
It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce. View quote
John Lennon
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other. View quote
William James
Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it. (Frederick Rolfe)
It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. We should all smile more often. View quote
Steve Maraboli
When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split. View quote
Raymond Chandler
We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells. View quote
Paul McCartney
United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs. View quote
Patrick Henry
There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun. View quote
Greg Bear
When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split? View quote
Tony Benn
At my back I hear the word-”homosexual”-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world. View quote
John Cheever
There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
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. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists. (David Finkelstein)
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves. View quote
Bobby Fischer
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged. View quote
Douglas Adams
I'd have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second's enough for them to start being something else. View quote
Wisława Szymborska