#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

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

— Nelson Algren

#divided #heart #urban #love

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

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#become #divided #fathers #founding #founding fathers

Maybe it is the media that has us divided. ↗

— Laura Bush

#maybe #media #us

I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now. ↗

— Judy Woodruff

#i #never #now #right #seen

This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#black #black and white #divided #encourages #into

Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon. ↗

— Saad Hariri

#gift #huge #lebanon #those #violence

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#because #between #both #determined #divided

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#despotism #despots #divided #increases #more