Quotes about Torn

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. Votes: 6

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 plan the day. Votes: 6

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. Votes: 6

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 the world as a Scotch banker. Votes: 6

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. Votes: 6

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. Votes: 4

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. Votes: 4

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office. Votes: 4

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. Votes: 4

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. Votes: 4

...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain. Votes: 4

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred... Votes: 4

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 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics. Votes: 4

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 arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest. Votes: 4

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder. Votes: 4

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 redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others. Votes: 4

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 Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil. Votes: 4

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 seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. Votes: 4

My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo. Votes: 3

To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside outSara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out Votes: 3

Life had a funny way of kicking you in the gut when you weren't looking.~Torn~ by S. Nelson Votes: 3

This is the way I wanna die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song. Votes: 3

This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song. Votes: 3

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither. Votes: 3

My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God. Votes: 3

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 could she stay? Votes: 3

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men. Votes: 3

The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable. Votes: 3

In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become free. Sara Niles Torn From the Inside Out Votes: 3

Death of a CarpenterAnd look: Beneath a crown of blood red thorns,A light wanders through now phosphorous hair;Whipped body bleeds stars nebula born,Torn side reveals a cosmic fire laid bare:A galaxy rises against the night,A million pulsing suns, as one, shine bright." Votes: 3

I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences. Votes: 2

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. Votes: 2

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos. Votes: 2

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. Votes: 2

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. Votes: 2

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. Votes: 2

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come. Votes: 2

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper. Votes: 2

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. Votes: 2

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die! Votes: 2

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. Votes: 2

Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites. Votes: 2

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. Votes: 2

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. Votes: 2

If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay. Votes: 2

A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap! Votes: 2

I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing up are gone and they will not return. In many ways the walls of segregation have been torn down. Votes: 2

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive. Votes: 2

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart. Votes: 2

How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people. Votes: 2

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. Votes: 2

What Eden have they torn you from? Votes: 0

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains Votes: 0

I am torn in two but I will conquer myself. Votes: 0

Nothing is ever free even a torn and worn underwear. Votes: 0

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it. Votes: 0

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence. Votes: 0

If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow. Votes: 0

I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Votes: 0

You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first. Votes: 0

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. Votes: 0

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. Votes: 0

In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too. Votes: 0

I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy. Votes: 0

My shirt got torn in a fight. Yours evidently has a fast-release tab. Votes: 0

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself. Votes: 0

A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions. Votes: 0

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up. Votes: 0

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness. Votes: 0

Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart Votes: 0

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War Votes: 0

Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death. Votes: 0

I don't really want to direct myself, but I'm certainly torn in that direction. Votes: 0

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. Votes: 0

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War. Votes: 0

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known. Votes: 0

A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past Votes: 0

When the heart is torn and broken, only love and kindness can mend it. Votes: 0

[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one. Votes: 0

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. Votes: 0

The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more. Votes: 0

When the heart is broken or wounded, the cloud of tears is torn as well Votes: 0

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended. Votes: 0

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905. Votes: 0

Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits. Votes: 0

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds. Votes: 0

I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them. Votes: 0

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters. Votes: 0

They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves. Votes: 0

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death? Votes: 0

Sometimes there were troubles but no one can be a hero without the heart being torn open. Votes: 0

That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way. Votes: 0

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them. Votes: 0

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Votes: 0

Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too. Votes: 0

Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out. Votes: 0

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them. Votes: 0

My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn. Votes: 0

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces. Votes: 0

Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn. Votes: 0

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me. Votes: 0

Every nation needs two wings to fly. Any bird torn at the wings will never soar the skies. Votes: 0

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. Votes: 0

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat. Votes: 0

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art. Votes: 0

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. Votes: 0

Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes. Votes: 0

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside. Votes: 0

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order. Votes: 0

My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on. Votes: 0

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion. Votes: 0

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's. Votes: 0

Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket. Votes: 0

When someone is crying and her heart is torn,Be an angel of kindness and help her to carry on. Votes: 0

The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge. Votes: 0

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust. Votes: 0

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. Votes: 0

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise... Votes: 0

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Votes: 0

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that Votes: 0

My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there. Votes: 0

WHEN YOU'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW,YOU'RE TORN BETWEENANTICIPATING A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISEAND THINKING YOU'RE A FOOL TOIGNORE WHAT YOU KNOW YOU LIKE. Votes: 0

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying? Votes: 0

Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo? Votes: 0

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond. Votes: 0

That strange, twisted, torn love. That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right. Votes: 0

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess. Votes: 0

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things. Votes: 0

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate. Votes: 0

Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel! Votes: 0

My heart had been crush torn and crumble but I'm still here and I'm not broken I'm still fighting my way out Votes: 0

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all. Votes: 0

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. Votes: 0

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn. Votes: 0

We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion. Votes: 0

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring. Votes: 0

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain. Votes: 0

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains. Votes: 0

However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again. Votes: 0

I always know that I am where I am supposed to be. I don't feel torn and I think that is really important. Votes: 0

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured out. Votes: 0

You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead. Votes: 0

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away. Votes: 0

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up. Votes: 0

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others. Votes: 0

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves. Votes: 0

O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me. Votes: 0

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits. Votes: 0

Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote. Votes: 0

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else Votes: 0

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again! Votes: 0

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win. Votes: 0

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders. Votes: 0

When you find someone is crying and her life is torn, just be kind, extend your hand with love and be a best friend. Votes: 0

Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul. Votes: 0

Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below. Votes: 0

Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so. Votes: 0

There is no elegance in this existence, nor grace in our lives. There is nothing poetic about feasting on blood that spills from torn flesh... Votes: 0

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter. Votes: 0

The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself. Votes: 0

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two. Votes: 0

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd. Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity. Votes: 0

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn. Votes: 0

The only legitimate excuse you could have for having a baby in those dire, war torn, famine struck conditions - would be to eat it. Votes: 0

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy. Votes: 0

Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow. Votes: 0

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have. Votes: 0

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn. Votes: 0

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms. Votes: 0

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace. Votes: 0

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 stone. Votes: 0

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away-- Votes: 0

When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like me might fit through. Votes: 0

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together. Votes: 0

In Chicago, they've had thousands of shootings, thousands since January 1st [2016]. Is this a war-torn country? What are we doing? And we have to stop the violence. Votes: 0

Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy. Votes: 0

Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night. Votes: 0

Her hair is smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arms, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful. Votes: 0

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words. Votes: 0

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it? Votes: 0

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 never cast down. Votes: 0

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. Votes: 0

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 tears of God Votes: 0

I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes. Votes: 0

The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate. Votes: 0

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 and other ego-satisfactions. Votes: 0

Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain. Votes: 0

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry. Votes: 0

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor. Votes: 0

It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something. Votes: 0

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart. Votes: 0

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders. Votes: 0

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby. Votes: 0

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity. Votes: 0

Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up. Votes: 0

Rock. . . is the expression of elemental passions...In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe. Votes: 0

Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?''You're bitching about shopping?' Rob countered.'I feel so torn!' Matty pulled at his hair. 'Oh my god. You suck. Votes: 0

A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream. Votes: 0

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 creates his own energy source. Votes: 0

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 society into a democratic one. Votes: 0

Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack. Votes: 0

Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions. Votes: 0

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile. Votes: 0

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 for the rest of my days. Votes: 0

Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness? Votes: 0

There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind. Votes: 0

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 to abide in consonance with it. Votes: 0

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel. Votes: 0

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. Votes: 0

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men. Votes: 0

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 truly free in my life. Votes: 0

If you are fully aligned with your soul it will be your pleasure, your joy to always move toward cooperation, toward sharing, toward reverence for life. You will not be torn. Votes: 0

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists. Votes: 0

A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad. Votes: 0

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. Votes: 0

Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite. Votes: 0

Once our country is fully engulfed in a debt crisis, our economy will be torn apart, and every American will be a victim of the federal government's failure to prevent this disaster. Votes: 0

One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunde Votes: 0

I'm torn. I want an 'R' (rating) because we can get a lot of cool scenes into it, but then I like the idea of younger girls being able to see it. Votes: 0

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 destroyed and treatment is difficult to get. Votes: 0

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living. Votes: 0

Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole. Votes: 0

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 a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro. Votes: 0

A friend is he who can feel your heart's beating and dance with it when it is joyful, cry with it when it is torn, and inspire when it is in need. Votes: 0

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing. Votes: 0

One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations. Votes: 0

Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice? Votes: 0

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds. Votes: 0

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing. Votes: 0

I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed. Votes: 0

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 this is the origin of the stars. Votes: 0

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 is torn away at a moment's notice. Votes: 0

Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death. Votes: 0

It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together. Votes: 0

The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church. Votes: 0

But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him? Votes: 0

There's an amount of love that can never - no matter what - be taken away or torn apart, no matter the situation. There are certain people who you will always, always love. Votes: 0

Violence was second nature to the psychopathic and ultra-violent Stephen Moyle, who was already a seasoned street fighter, after having half his face torn off in a street fight with three other men. Votes: 0

One of my fears would be getting torn apart by a great white shark. I love the ocean, but I always have this deep fear of getting torn apart by a great whitey. Votes: 0

One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strenth alone keeps it from being torn asunder. Votes: 0

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work. Votes: 0

I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much. Votes: 0

If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck. Votes: 0

When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that as a backdrop for the development of a super hero narrative. Votes: 0

I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows. Votes: 0

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 own soul so torn with doubt and terror! Votes: 0

You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch. Votes: 0

From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended. Votes: 0

Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from some old Jack Nicholson film, all anti-psychotic meds and padded lonely cells... Votes: 0

...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death. Votes: 0

...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world. Votes: 0

I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember. Votes: 0

There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered. Votes: 0

The way the vocal folds work is that they can get inflamed and in pain, but actual tears in the folds are somewhat rare. I've never torn anything. Been too strained plenty of times. Votes: 0

"I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me. Votes: 0

The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months. Votes: 0

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach. Votes: 0

I think a lot of times, when you're working in this business, and you're both actors or somehow involved in the industry, you can get torn in different directions and be on completely opposite schedules. Votes: 0

they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. Votes: 0

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we. Votes: 0

...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times... ...Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on... Quote on the Title Page of "Love TORN Asunder Votes: 0

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 landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy. Votes: 0

yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that. Votes: 0

This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama. Votes: 0