Riven Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.
— Paul Farmer
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I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think…
— Harold Brodkey
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Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of…
— William Wordsworth
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I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the key to breaking…
— Queen Noor of Jordan
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A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence around…
— Robert Montgomery
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The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.
— Robert Williams Buchanan
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I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their…
— Cormac McCarthy
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All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One…
— Edmond Rostand
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In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like…
— Alice Morse Earle
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I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
Who Wrote These Riven Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Riven Quotes as follows: