Splinter Quotes

51 quotes by 40 authors

To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the… — Li-Young Lee
I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my… — Louise Fitzhugh
If you want to write, find your splinter. Find the thing that pierces you and won't let you go. — Megan McDonald
I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, its like… — Dayo Okeniyi
Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil. — George W. Bush
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available. — Theodor Adorno
I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in… — Libba Bray
Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen… — Colson Whitehead
You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't. — Annie Leibovitz
I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry… — Jon Foreman
You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you canâ€™t. Itâ€™s important to stay the course. I… — Annie Leibovitz
I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds. — John F. Kennedy
You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of… — John Climacus
Two of the vital pillars that sustain Father in Heavenâ€™s plan of happiness are marriage and the family. Their lofty significance is underscored by Satanâ€™s… — Richard G. Scott
I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself… — Carl Jung
Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge… — Paula Rego
Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart. — Matthew Sharpe
Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to… — Saul Bellow
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. — Anthony Bourdain
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers… — Ann Brashares

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