Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.
When you have a highly divided society, it's hard to come together to make investments in the common good.
As our nation has become more divided, there is a resonance for a message to bring people together.
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good .
We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.
We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.
Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.
Our party remains as firm as this rock and will not be divided by any force in Germany.
The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
Nobody knows the tragedy of a small island divided against itself better than a Cypriot.
We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.
The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.
We should remind our American friends of their own motto: United we stand. Divided, we fall.
Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.
Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
We are going to have to do some real soul searching as a country and try to bring America together, because it is divided.
Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.
The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.
What's interesting about the Trump administration is how bitterly divided they are in their attitudes towards Putin.
There is no doubt our democracy can be very messy and America does remain a sharply divided country.
It's important to allow people to affect you. If we kept that at the forefront of our minds, maybe we wouldn't be as divided as we are.
The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.
The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.
Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.
Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres. Gaul as a whole is divided into three parts.
My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.
America is not divided, our enemies they will be stopped. Cause we the people are united, and still one nation under God.
Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.
... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.
I don't think the Palestinians are in this position they're in, divided with Hamas and the P.A., unwilling to allow - or recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through.
We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.
We need to stand up and become a united front against a common enemy. It's important for us to not be divided.
Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
While it was an experiment to bring them together, nothing has divided Europe as much as the euro.
I reject the notion that Boston is a city hopelessly divided by neighborhood, income level or political outlook.
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.
I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour.
The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.
I value loyalty and believe that internal disagreements shouldn't be voiced in the media - because divided parties lose elections.
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.
The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided.
The safest period of my lifetime was the Cold War, when Europe was more sharply divided than ever.
We're so bitterly divided these days, the appearance of a true 'other' might be the best chance of bringing us all together.
With Uhuru [Kenyatta] running against [Mwai] Kibaki, the Kikuyus will be divided for sure.
Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.
Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.
Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.
Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
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