#separates

Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#difficult #difficult things #even #himself #may

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#humor #hurt #laughter #line #pain

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#chaff #does #purify #separates #threshing

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#child #clothes #developed #eight #even

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. ↗

— Evita Peron

#charity #him #level #needy #poor

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#effectively #exile #hidden #more #others

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. ↗

— Stephen King

#hard #hard work #individual #lot #salt

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#feeling #paltry #separates #silences #unites

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#influence #inspiring #life #life story #memoir

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. ↗

— John Buchan

#barbarism #bring #civilization #division #earth