Divided And Conquered Quotes & Sayings

In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The less knowledgeable a nation is, the more 'miracles' the nation has. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Only here had he come to understand that he was not a battleground - to be divided and conquered by his grandparents - but a garden, where each person who'd contributed to his existence longed to see that something of themselves had taken root and grown. — Mary Doria Russell

We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen]. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Blomkvist had indeed had many brief relationships. He knew he was reasonably good-looking, but he had never considered himself exceptionally attractive. But he had often been told that he had something that made women interested in him ... that he radiated self-confidence and security at the same time, that he had the ability to make women feel at ease. Going to bed with him was not threatening or complicated, but it might be erotically enjoyable. And that, according to Blomkvist, was as it should be. — Stieg Larsson

If love wasn't conditional, everybody would be in love with everybody. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Man usually sees what he is looking for; seldom what he is looking at. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Yunkai's hold the center themselves, Dany noted. — George R R Martin

For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth. — Al Gore

Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The physically divided are also the conquered and the controlled. 'True desires' - erotic, gustatory, olfactory, musical, aesthetic, psychic, & spiritual - are best attained in a context of freedom of self and other in physical proximity & mutual aid. Everything else is at best a sort of representation. — Hakim Bey

Battlewinner spat out a shard of ice that sizzled into steam when it hit the lava. "You never wanted to be queen," she rasped. "You're a pathetic heir." "I know I am," Greatness said. "Being queen is awful. — Tui T. Sutherland

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. — Ellen Willis

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully. — Kate Millett

Faith does not make things happen. It merely breeds perseverance; which helps one persist in making things happen. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Obsessed with the desire to be happy I lost my life. I moved with the tension of a bow and arrow in an unreality of desires. — Clarice Lispector

The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it. — Larry Herzberg

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked. — Andrew Lloyd Webber

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again. — Ethel Waters

You will not get a Google alert when you fall in love. — Tom Brokaw

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was. — Ransom Riggs

All I care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you. — John Hughes

He who thinks in a sunny garden about the miners who work in the dark galleries of mines will understand so perfectly how beautiful and how hard life is! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's the invention of clothes, not nature, that made "private parts" private. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Pain isn't a lot of fun, at least not for most folks, but it is utterly unique to life. Pain - physical, emotional, and otherwise - is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there to tell us when we've done something badly - it's a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them.
For something no one likes, pain does us a whole hell of a lot of good. — Jim Butcher

A united people is a smoldering revolution. A divided people is a conquered people. — Richard Paul Evans

Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject, the day and the night. It goes on dividing things which are not divided. Neither is the day divided from the night, nor is birth divided from death. They are one energy. But mind goes on dividing everything into polarities, opposites. Nothing is opposite in existence; every contradiction is only apparent. Deep down all contradictions are meeting together. — Rajneesh