Torn Quotes

522 quotes by 446 authors

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning… — Aesop
Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away… — Audrey Hepburn
I feel bad because I haven't been able to say anything to the fans to let them no why I've been absent. I'm torn as… — Avril Lavigne
Whenever someone calls me a Pollyanna, I consider it to be the highest of compliments. This courageous girl finds a community that has been torn… — Joe Tye
There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at… — Barack Obama
We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the… — Nicholas Wolterstorff
So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind ourselves to the… — Danielle Crittenden
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album. — Natalie Imbruglia
Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart… — Swami Vivekananda
The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs… — Jeremy Jackson
Every nation needs two wings to fly. Any bird torn at the wings will never soar the skies. — Suzy Kassem
What Eden have they torn you from? — Cesare Borgia
Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one… — Mao Zedong
The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise... — Alexis Carrel
For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I… — Albert Camus
Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so… — Malcolm X
The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.… — Plutarch
Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it,… — N.D. Wilson
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and… — Joseph Heller
When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being is pulled towards… — Rajneesh

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