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The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever. -- Menachem Begin
We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy. -- Fatos Nano
Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction. -- Eamon de Valera
I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan. -- Khushwant Singh
I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women. -- Umera Ahmad
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What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part? -- Shimon Peres
And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs. -- Shimon Peres
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. -- Alexander Pope
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. -- John Dryden
In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity. -- Rumi
Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'? -- Henry Maudsley
Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere. -- Bashar al-Assad
The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy -- Seamus Costello
So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem. -- William Shakespeare
I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one. -- Yash Chopra
The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be so contrived as to render the one independent of the other. -- Alexander Hamilton
The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters. -- Czeslaw Milosz
There must still be room for the falling note, of course. Even in an undying world there are times when beauty passes from sight, or love passes from the heart, and we feel the sorrow of partition. -- Clive Barker
After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won. -- Sam Manekshaw
Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is it? if not the intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
I understand Windows as well as most technical-support personnel. I can edit a config.sys file and delete bad lines in an autoexec.bat with the best of them. I can partition a hard drive in FAT32 But why would I want to? -- Douglas Rushkoff
They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say. -- Virginia Woolf
The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs. -- Francis Bacon
The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them. -- David Ben-Gurion
I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and inaccessible. -- Michel Houellebecq
The feeling of being an Iraqi unites all ethnic groups within this country. Even the Kurds, who have traditionally pushed for their own state, see the benefits of the current situation. They enjoy an autonomous status in Kurdistan, while at the same time participating in decisions in Baghdad. But if neighboring states were to push for a partition of Iraq, it would be a horrible mistake. -- Zalmay Khalilzad
We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence. -- Gerry Adams
National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering. -- Park Geun-hye
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. -- Pankaj Mishra
And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society. -- Henry Lawson
The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition. -- Mallory Ortberg
Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition. -- Ovid
only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased. -- Helene Deutsch
DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels. -- Ambrose Bierce
For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world. -- Marc Chagall
Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting. -- Robert Southey
From the first day we have been fighting the wrong enemy; our common enemy is religion which dictates upon us division and partition." -- M.F. Moonzajer
Maybe that's the thing I'd been missing about love. You don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved. You can't control it like that. -- Penelope Douglas
European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust. -- Daniel Barenboim
You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other. -- Bashar al-Assad
Had partition beencarried out, the history of our people would have been different and six millionJews in Europe would not have been killed---most of them would be inIsrael -- David
I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove And in our bound partition never part. -- Stanislaw Lem
A lot of evidence shows that most of our cognitive processing is unconscious - phenomenal experience is just a very small slice or partition of a much larger space in which mental processing takes place. -- Thomas Metzinger

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