Torn Between Quotes

45 quotes by 38 authors

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two… — Louise Thaden
When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on your side in… — Price Pritchett
Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same… — Paulo Coelho
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 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
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
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
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
We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness. — Andy Rooney
I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests… — Edwin Markham
Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held… — Israel Shenker
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to… — Robertson Davies
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. — Katherine Dunn
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to… — Elwyn Brooks White
Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how… — Jodi Picoult
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the… — Carson McCullers
Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of… — Francesca Lia Block
I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream… — Bono

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