Best 293 quotes in «division quotes» category

I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

I wouldn't take anything away from Tampa Bay. We're in one of the toughest divisions there is.

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

Liverpool wouldn't be the club it is today without Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley and the players who played there. When I first went there it was a typical Second Division ground, and look at it now!

Looking to the future, the words uncertain and scared near the top but hopeful and optimistic prevail and beneath the division one sign of civility, 73 percent of Americans have a close friend or family member who voted for an opposing candidate.

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

May Allah bless Iran, bless the leadership of Iran, and bless our Muslim Umrah to throw off the yoke of neo-colonialism, and the divisions that Shaitan is exploiting, causing us to fight and kill one another.

My God, I wish we had [the] 9th Australian Division with us this morning.

Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.

Oliver [McCall] has meant so much to my career and showed that in the heavyweight division, anything is possible.

Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. The contradiction between individual principle and social principle disappears.

One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.

Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.

Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid

Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness.

Let a man be of what side he may in politics, unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort.

Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.

Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy. The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.

Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space

Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

Not too worried about fighting for titles, but just fighting the best competition at the Welterweight division. I'll be happy with that.

Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division.

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.

Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion.

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.

Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.

The Cold War began with the division of Europe. It can only end when Europe is whole.

The colonial power tended to be France or Britain, and the Soviets were proclaimed as anti-imperialists. So, if you align yourself with the Soviets, it fits nicely with that kind of rhetorical division, but in reality it does not get you anywhere.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

The division [between how much housework men and women do] is declining across all advanced economies - not for the reasons that people want, which is men are doing more, but because women are doing less of it, but even then, the trend is getting towards equality.