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Divisions Quotes

The lines that separate and define.

This page gathers divisions quotes that look at separation from several angles, including growing economic gaps and the surprisingly sharp regional dialect differences found across a country. For related structural themes, see our More quotes page.

You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.

Quotes by Yotam Ottolenghi

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on.

Quotes by William Labov

Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.

Quotes by Victor Ponta

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring...

Thomas Mann

Been Quotes

The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects...

Quotes by Theodor Mommsen

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.

Quotes by Sylvia Earle

As we contemplate a world which is still choosing to deploy technological innovation in a way that deepens inequality and divisions within and between nations, we need to set global foundations back on track.

Quotes by Sharan Burrow

Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier...

Quotes by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

There are divisions between a culinary chef and a dessert chef, also called a pastry chef. There are specializations within the pastry chef field. Some pastry chefs specialize in baking breads, while others are master cake designers. Each field requires...

Quotes by Ron Ben-Israel

Law Quotes

We make artificial divisions everywhere: Democrats and Republicans, black and white, millennials and baby boomers. Even those of us who are against building walls find ourselves pointing accusing fingers at those wall-builders.

Quotes by Robert J. Waldinger

You can't work across party lines when there aren't many of them. So I'm going to work across Republican Party lines because there are a lot of divisions in the Republican Party.

Quotes by Robert J. Bentley

Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.

Quotes by Robert Grosseteste

Political divisions may be fierce, but there is at least one issue that most Americans agree on: net neutrality.

Quotes by Ro Khanna

My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were perfect foils for that story.

Quotes by Rick Perlstein

Long Quotes

I don't think you're going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I don't think they're going to be occupying foreign nations in order to dry up terrorist groups within them....

Quotes by Richard Engel

The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.

Quotes by Richard Engel

We did a student-initiated project of 'A Little Night Music', which was the first time that all of the divisions - music, dance, drama, opera - came together and put on a piece. It was a black box kind of...

Quotes by Phillipa Soo

Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to...

Quotes by Peter Ackroyd

Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.

Quotes by Patanjali

More Quotes

Yet we have learned from the Scottish independence vote and with Brexit what referendums do to our politics. They foster bitter divisions in ways that parliamentary elections tend not to do.

Quotes by Owen Jones

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of divisions appear across this quotes page?
The lines cover social categories, economic gaps, regional dialects, and even filmmaking stages, showing how broadly the idea of "divisions" can apply.
Does this page touch on economic inequality?
Yes, one quote argues that large gaps in income and wealth can weaken overall demand and create instability that holds back growth.
Is there a quote about relaxed social categories?
Yes, one speaker suggests that strict lines around dietary or lifestyle choices, like being vegetarian yet still eating fish, don't really hold up as hard divisions anymore.
Does language or regional variation come up here?
Yes, one entry notes that instead of a gradual blending, there are clear and sharp splits between regional speech patterns that are actually growing further apart over time.
Is filmmaking discussed in terms of divisions?
Yes, one quote from an actor's perspective mentions wanting to understand every stage of a movie, including its early and late production divisions, beyond just the acting part. Readers curious about behind-the-scenes reflections might enjoy our More quotes page.

Other quotes shift focus to the practical divisions behind moviemaking, like planning pre-production and shot sequences. Explore our Law quotes and Long quotes pages for more.