Torn Quotes
522 quotes by 446 authors
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To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
— John James Audubon
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
— Albert Brooks
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I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a…
— Kobe Bryant
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
— Anthony Burgess
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I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in…
— Albert Camus
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If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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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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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast…
— John Burroughs
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The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire undocumented…
— Barack Obama
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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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This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries…
— Adolf Hitler
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which…
— Adam Sedgwick
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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot…
— Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
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