Torn Quotes

522 quotes by 446 authors

It's hard to know when to respond to the seductiveness of the world and when to respond to its challenge. If the world were merely… — Elwyn Brooks White
I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are… — Greg Walden
Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity… — Christian Lous Lange
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being… — Parker J. Palmer
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when… — Emma Goldman
I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things. — Harvey Pekar
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
. . . It is as though horror has frozen the blood in my veins, paralyzed my arms, and torn all thought from my brain… — Ernst Udet
But while our parting was mutually acceptable and even expedient, still it was painful. And I would like to think it hurt both of us,… — Brian Lumley
We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to… — Elisabeth Elliot
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak… — W. Eugene Smith
A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is… — Edvard Grieg
The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women… — Melissa Harris-Perry
Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all the fascists and… — Victor Davis Hanson
The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather… — Franz Kafka
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for… — Lucretius
It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the… — Robley Wilson
Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is… — Rumi
With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them. — Maurice Jarre
The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order. — Michel de Certeau

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