Torn Quotes

522 quotes by 446 authors

The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way… — Bernie Krause
The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it… — Marshawn Lynch
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no… — John Berger
A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the… — Nelson Mandela
The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority… — El Lissitzky
A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend,… — J. Christopher Herold
I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve… — James Nachtwey
All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute… — Ramsay MacMullen
The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the… — Walter Ciszek
These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place… — Mike Fitzpatrick
The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and… — Anaxagoras
We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each… — Andy Rooney
Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his… — Rex Stout
The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces. — Joseph Campbell
I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow… — Werner Herzog
A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . .… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Yet however comforting and peaceful beach-combing is, it ends up like the sea, as disturbing as it is reassuring. In dark moments I believe that… — Tim Winton
Somewhere, sometime, somehow you got tangled up in garbage, and you've been avoiding God. You've allowed a veil of guilt to come between you and… — Max Lucado
I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust. — William S. Burroughs
Everything you go through can be a lesson for you. Lack of forgiveness can manifest itself in different ways -in some lives it can be… — Thelma Wells

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