Top 190 Separation Quotes

There’s a pressure to be the wrestler that you are, that character that you’ve created 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It’s tough for wrestlers sometimes to sort of have that separation between person and character.
Christopher Daniels
There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
Andrew Jackson
True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
Ben Shapiro
So I’ve never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
Neville Marriner
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
Andrew Jackson
I think that story ballets, as great as they might sell, they’re a really dated and awkward medium to tell stories through. I think there needs to be an updated or different approach to storytelling in dance. There needs to be less of a separation between the storytelling and the dancing.
Justin Peck
The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine.
Sharron Angle
We have this idea in our minds that there’s this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics – not just church and state, but it’s also there’s a separation of religion and politics. But of course there isn’t.
Stephen Colbert
Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there’s all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.
Jen Kirkman
It’s through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.
Rachel Kushner
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust
If you think about ‘Person of Interest’ with Taraji P. Henson or ‘Scandal’ with Kerry Washington – any of those black women could have been any race; they just happen to be black. And those are the characters that I’m more attracted to. It’s not so much about separation of race, but really, more uniting us.
Sufe Bradshaw
I had a dog named Oliver with severe separation anxiety. He couldn’t be alone… so I had to bring him wherever I went.
Matthew Pearl
The bedrock of this country are immigration and, really, a great separation between church and state.
Shahid Khan
The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.
Bruno Latour
We must embrace unity, not separation – sharing, go back to small, caring communities. Unity, not separation, is what has to happen.
Genesis P-Orridge
I’m not on Twitter, and I don’t read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There’s this weird separation between your private and public persona.
Samantha Cameron
So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.
Michael K. Powell
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
There’s a natural separation that kids have to go through with their parents, but then when you put that on top of actually having a career, it gets even more painful.
Adrianne Lenker
It’s one of the hardest things in the world to sustain a monogamous relationship for many years. People out there who have been with their partners for 30 years or more – I salute you. But it’s just as hard to admit something isn’t working and then try to manage a civilised separation as best as you can.
John Niven
For when two beings who are not friends are near each o

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
Simone Weil
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Simone Weil
I’m Catholic. I believe life begins at conception, but I’m also American, and I believe in the separation of church and state. A woman’s right to choose is the law of the land, and I support that.
Conor Lamb
To Western eyes and ears, Sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking. Certainly the American idea of separation between church and state is lost in Sharia-style governance.
Jay Parini
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
Robert Rainy
We in El Paso and Juarez are literally one community. There’s no separation; there’s no DMZ; there’s no buffer.
Beto O’Rourke
I don’t believe in the separation between mankind and nature. Mankind is nature.
Jim Sarbh
I think I’m extremely lucky to have been able to go through a separation with the mother of my child and us still be great friends.
Michael Clarke
I try not to think of my life in terms of separation.
Ilhan Omar
Anyone who has followed my work knows that I’m an advocate of reducing the power of the High Court of Justice, according to the principle of separation of powers.
Ayelet Shaked
Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we’ll see that person again – or perhaps knowing that we won’t.
Luanne Rice
Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.
Evgeny Morozov
I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, ’cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn’t get everything.
George Will
The separation of audience into tribes preferring to reinforce their own views with media of similar ideological stripe makes true debate impossible.
Richard Edelman
Quite often you hear people say, ‘What about separation of church and state?’ There is no such thing.
Dan Severson
Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
James Q. Wilson
I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.
Rick Santorum
There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other’s domain.
P. Sathasivam
I always found that the more extreme and the more eccentric I was, that’s what would separate me. I always felt that I needed that separation; otherwise, I’d just be like everybody else.
Bradley Wiggins
Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.
Don Baylor
What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.
Mark Pagel
Israel fits into the zeitgeist of our era. It is true that there are demographic threats to its existence. That is why a separation from the Palestinians is a compelling imperative.
Ehud Barak
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
Richard M. Nixon
Cabaret is a much more up close and personal experience, which I enjoy very much. This is a tremendous difference to being in a large theatre, doing a book show, where there is more separation. But both have equal importance.
Chita Rivera
When I grew up, there was one music: rock n’ roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don’t know why it happened, but it did happen.
Clarence Clemons
I didn’t want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.
Mos Def
I’ve been a visual artist my entire life, so translating music to imagery has always come naturally to me. Tycho is an audio-visual project in a lot of ways, so I don’t see a real separation between the visual and musical aspects; they are both just components of a larger vision.
Tycho