Torn Quotes

522 quotes by 446 authors

I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like you don't have style at all,… — Andre Benjamin
What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food… — Rumi
In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to economic fundamentalism, with… — Carlos Fuentes
There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation… — Gouverneur Morris
All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And… — John Donne
Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is… — Norman Mailer
Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I came into the world charged with the duty to uphold the right in every place, to destroy sin and evil... the only reason I… — Guru Gobind Singh
Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of corruption,… — Richard Selzer
It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn,… — Dorothy Parker
The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten… — Andy Goldsworthy
Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you inventory your leaves… — Ming-Dao Deng
To us, it might look like just a rag. But to the brave, embattled men of the fort, it was more than that. It was… — Jack Handey
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. — D. H. Lawrence
We, as citizens or members of people's organisations, can preserve and nourish basic principles needed for long-term efforts aimed at transforming a totalitarian and war-torn… — Katarina Kruhonja
A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn… — Jeff Noon
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the… — Elwyn Brooks White
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in knowing… — David Ebershoff
In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will… — Wayne Muller

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