Divided Quotes

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Vietnam has changed America. It has divided and made people think. There`s a lot of opposition - much more than you think, because all the opposition is laughed at in American magazines. It`s made to look ridiculous. But there is real opposition. Before, Americans used to accept everything, my country right or wrong. But now a lot of people are saying my country should be right, not wrong.

- Mick Jagger

They`ve (the Scary Movie series) given me a career but they`ve also sort of boxed me in. What really surprised me when I first moved here is that the industry thought of actors as either comedic or dramatic. And I`m still confused. I understand that maybe some people are better at one or the other, but I can`t understand why it`s so divided. I`ve been able to chip away at that a bit; I think it gets easier as my body of work expands.

- Anna Faris

(On her weight fluctuations) When you`re fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.

- Elizabeth Taylor

Europeans are incredibly negative about America at the moment. I think they lose sight of the fact that the country`s a very divided place right now.

- Gwyneth Paltrow

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

- Woody Allen

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

- Woody Allen

I`m sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don`t think there`s any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.

- Howard Stern

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

- Arundhati Roy

Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

- Laura Bush

Sides are being divided now. It`s very obvious. So if you`re on the other side of the fence, you`re suddenly anti-American. It`s breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

- Sam Shepard

(on his first lunch meeting with George Lucas): I liked him. The conversation was divided culturally by 8,000 miles and 30 years; but I think we might understand each other if I can get past his intensity.

- Alec Guinness

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.

- Gavin Newsom

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

- James Weldon Johnson

The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?

- John Edwards

I think the idea of having the show divided into two parts was that Tom Tom Club opened for Talking Heads in Europe, and it was the best we`d ever had as an opening act.

- Tina Weymouth

Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

- Yitzhak Rabin

Their legal claims are of equal quality and they are equally entitled to the ball, ... The ball must be sold and divided equally between the parties.

- Kevin McCarthy

People were really divided about whether it was appropriate.

- Jenny Thompson

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

- Franz Liszt

In Hungary al native music is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

- Franz Liszt

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

- Jane Austen

The General Staff is naturally divided into five groups, each with its chief who is an assistant to the Chief of the General Staff.

- Kelly Miller

The interfaith communal trip to Israel provides us with a unique spiritual opportunity, ... Not only will we investigate and revitalize our own Judaism, but by sharing our spiritual journey with others and witnessing the sacred impact of Israel on them, we will deepen our understanding of how the Holy Land speaks in different tongues to those who love her. We live in a world increasingly divided by religious beliefs. What a superb opportunity to use our common concern for Israel to unite us and create understanding.

- Mark Levin

So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.

- Russell Banks

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

- Jim Cooper

My first stage play was a play about a family, an unhappy family, divided against itself, and it was originally called Retreats.

- Peter Shaffer

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

- Adam Schiff

The leadership in Beijing, I think, is deeply divided over how to deal with the United States,

- Richard Solomon

I don`t think we`re as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.

- Ed Gillespie

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

- Robert Welch

In our auditions, the candidates and committees are fairly equally divided between male and female. Whoever plays the best '“ that`s who gets the job.

- Doug Hall

One of our roles at the Forestry Commission is to provide Georgia landowners with high-quality, accurate and timely timber price information. Georgia has 24.3 million acres of forestland available for commercial use and timber is the highest valued vegetative crop in the state. Since timber prices vary across the state, Forest2Market had divided Georgia into three primary timber pricing regions. Forest2Market`s report will serve as a valuable tool to help Georgia`s Forest Products Industry compete in the global market. We are pleased to provide a timber market report specific to Georgia.

- Steve Chapman

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

- Jonathan Carroll

Italy is a divided country without a center.

- Christian Lacroix

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

- Terry Pratchett

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

- Barney Frank

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

- Douglas Hurd

First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel`s capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.

- Benjamin Netanyahu

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

- Romano Prodi

Bipartisanship isn`t an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

- Tom Daschle

We are part of this family, and we will not be divided by any person.

- Keith Boykin

We went through incredible trials. The house was divided and there was much hatred among us.

- Daniel Brown

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn`t be enough to go around.

- Aaron Perkins

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

- Agost Benard

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

- Ahmed Ghneim

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

- Aitan Goelman

My people were divided about surrendering.

- Alan Herbert

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

- Alan Walters

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That`s one of the prices you pay for progress.

- Albert Arena