“The American people and American businesses are looking to the federal government to lead our nation on the path to economic recovery. It is time to stop splitting hairs. It is time to act.” PeopleGovernmentNationsPathEconomicHairRecoveryFederal GovernmentSplittingAmerican BusinessEconomic Recovery Author:Joseph Crowley
“The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.” TruthArmsTruth IsRiversLifetimeArguingMainstreamSplittingSplitting Up Author:Cyril Connolly
“My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an inner center of silence, gratitude, and 'awareness.' This can be realized in a life that apparently accomplishes nothing. Without centering on accomplishment or nonaccomplishment, my task is simply the breathing of this gratitude from day to day, in simplicity, and for the rest turning my hand to whatever comes, work being part of praise, whether splitting logs or writing poems, or best of all simple notes.” WritingStillsHandsMy OwnSimpleSilenceAwarenessPoetGratitudeTasksPraiseNotesSimplicityAccomplishBreathingAccomplishmentProphetDay To DayCommentatorsPseudoSplittingPraise GodWriting PoemsCenteringAccomplish Nothing Author:Thomas Merton
“O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they demonstrated the production of nuclei of barium, lanthanum, strontium, yttrium, and, more recently, of xenon and caesium. It can be shown by simple considerations that this type of nuclear reaction may be described in an essentially classical way like the fission of a liquid drop, and that the fission products must fly apart with kinetic energies of the order of hundred million electron-volts each.” WayMayTwoScienceOrderEnergySimpleMillionsProductsTypeHundredProductionsNuclearReactionsConsiderationLiquidElectronsSplittingNucleusUraniumFissionNeutronsNuclear FissionVoltKinetic EnergyXenon Author:Lise Meitner
“There could be some compromise, but I think we have to stick to the provisions of the treaty, and the provisions of the treaty are saying that the president is appointed for a mandate of eight years time. I think it would be very damaging for the European Central Bank if there would be a splitting of this mandate.” IfsThinkingYearsWould BePresidentSticksEightCompromiseProvisionTreatiesMandatesCentral BanksSplitting Author:Jacques Santer
“If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you.It's a sense of power, of command over distance and gravity, and an illusion of no longer having to move because movement is carrying you.” IfsTryingMeanFeelingsRunningEarthMovingImagineMovementWindIllusionDistanceMilesCommandIceGravityBladesSplittingSkater Book:Wings on my feet Source: Wings on my feet
“Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.” FootballBecomingComplicatedFormulasChemicalsAtomsTacticsSplittingSplitting The Atom Author:Jimmy Greaves
“Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more the effect of a 'vital principle' than the splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The history of this problem is instructive, as it warns us against considering problems as beyond our reach because they have not yet found their solution.” ProblemScienceFoundPrinciplesMysteryEffectsSolutionsDiscoveryAlcoholBiologyMysticismSugarConsideringFragmentsRelievedSplittingCo2Splitting Up Author:Jacques Loeb
“Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.” KindCharacterActorsActingDiseaseSchizophreniaSplitting Author:Vittorio Gassman
“There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.” HumansLawNationsRoomsRightsHairHuman RightsTreatmentHumaneRule Of LawSplittingDetainees Author:Dick Durbin
“It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!” WantReasonTogetherFeltBehindsRegretSeparationOur FamilyThis DaySplittingDon't RegretFamily TogetherSplitting Up Author:Agnetha Faltskog
“Was the Buffalo chicken wing invented when Teressa Bellissimo thought of splitting it in half and deep frying it and serving it with celery and blue-cheese dressing? Was it invented when John Young started using mambo sauce and thought of elevating wings into a specialty?” YoungHalfBlueWingsServingChickensCheeseDressingsSauceBuffaloSplittingSpecialtyElevatingFryingCeleryChicken WingsBlue Cheese Book:Third Helpings Source: Third Helpings
“We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.” StarsBitsEnjoyConsciousnessPiecesTreeAtomsNow And ThenArrangementsParticlesDriftingUnifiedFriesSplittingBits And PiecesFrench FriesSplitting Up Book:Glory Lane Source: Glory Lane
“I lifted my right foot to step up into the bus and collided head on with an invisible force that entered my awareness like a silently exploding stick of dynamite blowing the door of my usual consciousness open and off its hinges, splitting me in two. In the gaping space that appeared, what I had previously called "me" was forcefully pushed out of its usual location inside me into a new location that was approximately a foot behind and to the left of my head. "I" was now behind my body, looking out at the world without using the body's eyes.” WorldTwoBodyEyeLeftForceSpaceBehindsConsciousnessStepsDoorsFeetAwarenessSticksInvisibleBusUsualLocationStep UpAnd OffHingesExplodingSplittingDynamite Author:Suzanne Segal
“The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple-universe.” IfsMenHomeSpiritTurnsUniverseMysteryRocksWindMountainBlindCleanCellsSoilGapsSparesCliffsStalkingIcySplittingBlind ManLatitudeMapleUnbound Author:Annie Dillard
“Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.” GivingFoundNatureLinesSurpriseIncludingExceptionSplittingException To The RuleTriplet Author:Pieter Zeeman
“Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence of the human genetic code. This amazing accomplishment is likely to affect the 21st century as profoundly as the invention of the computer or the splitting of the atom affected the 20th century. I believe that the 21st century will be the century of life sciences, and nothing makes that point more clearly than this momentous discovery. It will revolutionize medicine as we know it today.” KnowsBelieveHumansTodayScienceI BelieveWeekCenturyComputerDiscoveryTasksScientistMedicineInventionCodeAccomplishmentAffectedAtoms21st Century20th CenturyDnaSequenceCompletionUnimaginableSplitting Author:Edward Kennedy
“There’s no mystery to integrity. There’s no mystery to oneness. When there is a core-splitting honesty, right there, awareness knows.” KnowsMysteryAwarenessHonestyIntegrityCoreOnenessSplitting Author:John de Ruiter
“I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say, 'I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I'm splitting my ticket for you.' They're more engaged and thoughtful than we give them credit for.” PeopleGivingI CanLinesElectionDemocratCreditEngagedThoughtfulVotingTicketsStanding OutElection DaySplitting Author:Wendy Davis
“The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.” YearsNextFiveFive YearsSplitting Author:Greta Scacchi
“The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.” MenTwoImportantTogetherSpiritualScienceLeftGivenInterestImaginationSpaceGoneWrittenColorGeniusEnlightenmentNotesInsightBreadOur TimeEtcAtomsConcreteCanvasMysticalBricksImaginativePosterityOne WordJetSplittingSpiritual InsightPenicillinPropulsion Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.” RealityCompanyStrategyInvestmentDiscussionOutcomesInvestorsMultipleExpansionBankersSplittingSplitting Up Author:Irene Rosenfeld
“Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting.” MenTeaEstatesSpinningForsakeKnittingSplittingNeedlework Author:Benjamin Franklin
“We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the thousands in small towns, and the hundreds in villages -- all these at once. Like a volcanic eruption, a spiritual revolution needs to spread through the country, to spur people to crucial decisions. People have to recognize the futility of splitting life up into politics, economics, the humanities, and religion. We must be awakened to a life in which all of these things are completely integrated.” PeopleNeedsCountrySpiritualHumanityCommunityDecisionCitiesMillionsRevolutionEconomicsTownsSpreadMediumsVillageCrucialSmall TownAwakenedIntegratedFutilitySpursSplittingEruptionVolcanic Eruptions Author:Eberhard Arnold
“Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.” LeaderThreatTenseFactionsSplitting Author:Mary Douglas
“The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.” ChurchGoes OnMembersConstantRomeCultSplittingLeakageBreakaway Author:Mary Douglas
“Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.” BigsRaysSplittingBiscuitsFried ChickenBroccoliBeets Author:Darius Rucker
“Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.” KindBigsActingHappenedSingingBallsStorytellingSplitting Author:Clare Bowen
“As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the page in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, kind of hypnotizing smell.” IfsKindLittlesMadeBookRealEyeReadingStrongSoundPaperPagesBreathsLibrarySmellStuckBrandsNosesCoveredScentLeatherBrand NewDeep BreathNew BooksPuffSplittingOld BooksDrowsy Book:Bud, not Buddy: with connections Source: Bud, not Buddy: with connections