Tearing Quotes

227 Tearing quotes by 198 unique authors

At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as… — Adeline Yen Mah
With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat… — Jay Leno
You're tearing me apart! — James Dean
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. — George Orwell
One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and… — Charles Darwin
All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody… — Ken Kesey
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat for support in… — Regina Doman
Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?" "If you wanted me to rip my clothes… — Cassandra Clare
They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his… — Stuart Hill
Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing… — Jack London
In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning. — Malcolm Gladwell
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard… — Anthony Bourdain
There's nothing wild about me. I'm a solid middle-aged man." "Except that once a month you turn into a wolf and go tearing around slaughtering… — Cassandra Clare
I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made… — Reif Larsen
Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up… — Kristin Cashore
You would kill or enslave everyone? There is so much beauty in the world that they’d destroy. How do you not see it? (Delphine) Spoken… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that,… — Nick Hornby
I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web,… — M.F.K. Fisher
Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up? — Sean Covey
Same old boring boring story America can’t stop telling itself. What is this sicko fascination? Every book and movie practically has to have a little,… — Francesca Lia Block
Magnus wants to shout at me, don’t you, Magnus?” (Jace) “Yes,” Magnus said, tearing his eyes away from Alec long enough to scowl. -pg.275- — Cassandra Clare
Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should have never left… — Tamora Pierce

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