Torn Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Only a smile can make the tears dissapear

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.

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

When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

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

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.

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

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--

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Love is meant to LIFT you up, not tear you down. It is meant to strengthen you, not weaken you.

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

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 - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.

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.

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

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

He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time