Shreds Quotes
77 quotes by 70 authors
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Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of…
— Jack Abramoff
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I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its…
— William Wells Brown
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Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.
— Morgan Llywelyn
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Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the…
— Mark Twain
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Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity,…
— Wole Soyinka
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One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events…
— Kathy Acker
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Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within…
— Hafez
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A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me…
— Blaise Cendrars
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Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history…
— John Flavel
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Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them…
— Bartolome de las Casas
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I leave shreds of my soul on every experience,
— Oriana Fallaci
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Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced…
— Albert Camus
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Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
— John Lothrop Motley
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The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.
— Charles Spurgeon
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It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to…
— Gillian Flynn
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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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I want nothing for myself... My glory is and always will be... the banner of my people, and even if I leave shreds of my…
— Evita Peron
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Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Shreds Quotes
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