Famous Quotes & Sayings

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?

We furnished the farm house and the land. They furnished the labor and the equipment and then we divided the profits. It was a perfect arrangement.

Mark Twain

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

James Purefoy

I do live a weirdly divided life, because I'm not a Hollywood superstar, I don't live on Malibu Beach, I don't do massive 'OK!' spreads, I don't go to premieres and parties that much.

People outside the Hollywood mainstream were the ones making the films that were most compelling. It might be an indication of the growing divide in this business. The big studios are more and more focused on making money and making what sells.

Stephen Spender

People sometimes divide others into those you laugh at and those you laugh with. The young Auden was someone you could laugh-at-with.

Michael Beschloss

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee.

The status quo is not acceptable, ... We need more resources to support our people, operations and programs. These are investments that will pay large dividends rapidly.

Hubie Brown

They try to divide you, all these guys try to divide you and they try to divide the team. They get an unnamed source or a player here (to say) that we're all pointing fingers.

Javier Solana

The U.N. route has to be continued... Europe is not divided on this point.

There wasn't really a divide between the students at all.

Tad Devine

And this is just another example where his insensitivity has divided people, and I think it's hurting our country.

Conrad Aiken

And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.

Conrad Aiken

And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight To divide us forever.

Eleven years ago we never expected this would be the case. Many people now long for a divided government because that may be what it takes to get more responsibility,

Earnings have been pretty good so far. What surprises me are the increases in dividends and the positive outlooks.

Is she qualified? If the leading professional association is either divided or comes in with a negative report, that could be fatal. Strongly positive, that would be helpful.

Julius Caesar

The whole of Gaul is divided into three parts.

We got hit hard from Saluda right on the continental divide up to Hendersonville.

Jojo Moyes

Writers divide fairly cleanly into those who only work through what they hear and those who are more visual. I am the latter, where I lie down on my office floor and play scenes through my head to - cinematically, several times with different elements - to see what works. I can't write a scene until I can see it.

At one time the Legislature was pretty evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. But through redistricting, they managed to get rid of a number of women ... (who) were progressive.

John Proctor

Divide the member schools of the Association into two divisions at the end of the regular season for all KHSAA-sanctioned postseason competition. Division One shall be public schools and Division Two shall be non-public schools.

Marcus Samuelsson

There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

Douglas Hurd

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

If you do a little homework on the front end, it can pay some dividends at tax-preparation time, and it can put some money in your pocket.

It's a major resolution of issues that have divided Maryland racing for more than a decade, particularly with respect to the General Assembly. We'll now be speaking with one voice. I can't remember the last time that happened.

It's going to be a shootout at the OK Corral, ... One of the greatest games in playoff history. Being at home doesn't necessarily mean you're going to win. These are two of the most evenly divided teams to ever play in the history of the playoffs.

It's good to come to a sensible resolution of this matter, especially where good people are involved. You have two strong, wonderful families, and there's no reason why a heated moment should divide them.

In this position, if you can't multi-task, you would struggle. Your time is divided in so many arenas.

I like to divide the league into thirds. We're a middle tier team.

Green Day

I'm walking down the lineThat divides me somewhere in my mind.

Phil Dawson

If you shorten your momentum and your steps and leg swing, you have to find a new way to get power. Those were some of the things I was working on. I think it's going to pay dividends late in the year.

Arthur Henderson

It has been said that since September, 1931, the world has been divided into wholehearted violators and halfhearted supporters of the Covenant.