Shattering Quotes
86 quotes by 81 authors
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Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today, these two concepts have failed. Those with insight can…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled foliage struggling along…
— Rex Ingamells
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There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every…
— Winston Churchill
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Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving on the road at night I…
— Christopher Walken
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Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.
— Billy Corgan
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Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I may find Jesus. Let fire,…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability…
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Only in the shattering can the rebuilding occur
— Barbara Marciniak
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The most shattering thought I've ever had is my personal accountability to God one day
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence.…
— Stuart Dybek
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A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the progenitors. Dangerously sharp,…
— Greg Rucka
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David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it…
— Nicole Krauss
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Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering…
— Cecil B. DeMille
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Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but…
— Lynda Resnick
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I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
— Lesley Garrett
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Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence…
— Al Gore
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Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of…
— Lucille Clifton
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The lives of most people are small tight pallid and sad, more to be mourned than their deaths. We starve at the banquet: We cannot…
— David Foster Wallace
Who Wrote These Shattering Quotes
81 authors contributed a total of 86 Shattering Quotes, led by these top contributors: