Splinter Quotes
51 quotes by 40 authors
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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
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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
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If you want to write, find your splinter. Find the thing that pierces you and won't let you go.
— Megan McDonald
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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
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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
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The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.
— Theodor Adorno
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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
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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
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You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.
— Annie Leibovitz
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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
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You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t. It’s important to stay the course. I…
— Annie Leibovitz
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I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.
— John F. Kennedy
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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
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Two of the vital pillars that sustain Father in Heaven’s plan of happiness are marriage and the family. Their lofty significance is underscored by Satan’s…
— Richard G. Scott
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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
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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
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Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.
— Matthew Sharpe
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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
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Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
— Anthony Bourdain
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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
Who Wrote These Splinter Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 51 Splinter Quotes, led by these top contributors: