Shattering Quotes
86 quotes by 81 authors
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable—how we decide what is valuable.
— Ai Weiwei
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During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physically and…
— David Halberstam
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering…
— George Orwell
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Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying “Yes, Lord!†-…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that plants can grow.…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran…
— Tana French
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Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that…
— Jeanette Winterson
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It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
— C.S. Lewis
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The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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The very first part in healing is shattering the silence,
— Erin Merryn
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Over the course of four rough, ego-shattering hours, the ayahuasca shows me that opening myself to love of Zoe and all others is the sure…
— Chris Kilham
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Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined by local connections,…
— Fritjof Capra
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Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in…
— Marion Woodman
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God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
— Sophocles
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Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how…
— Evan Peters
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But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of…
— Dev Patel
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I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you…
— Atom Egoyan
Who Wrote These Shattering Quotes
81 authors contributed a total of 86 Shattering Quotes, led by these top contributors: