#divided

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#creating #develop #directions #divergent #divided

I'm just full of surprises." Watching her, he waved the wrapped bar from side to side. "You can have the candy if you sit on my lap." That sounds like something perverted old men say to young, stupid girls." I'm not old, and you're not stupid." He sat, patted his knee. "It's Belgian chocolate." Just because I'm sitting on your lap and eating your candy doesn't mean you can cop a feel," she said as she folded into his lap. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#eve-dallas #roarke #death

The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209)……The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269). ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#david-ritz #divided-soul #hate #janis-hunter #love

I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#divided #elite #i #many #think

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully. ↗

— Kate Millett

#divided #had #hell #hospital #i

My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#analysis #cell #controlling #crucial #cycle

The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#into #man #mind #parts #physical

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. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#breakdown #children #compassionate #divided #each

The Olympic movement is divided into two very distinct eras. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#divided #eras #into #movement #olympic

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#divided #heart #urban #love