Tears Quotes - Page 15

• We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.

  David Foreman

  Insecure, Land, Rivers

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• When something or someone is hyped and you're put on the forefront of a lot of things, people want to tear you down. That's kind of scary, especially when you're not really putting yourself out there.

  Robert Pattinson

  People, Scary, Want

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• When I sat on the chair at 5-0, I was like, 'Okay, now you can try to break her, and if not, you have the serve.' So I was a little bit more relaxed since I had a few chances to do that. But I still knew I could break her. Then suddenly I did a winner from the backhand, and I was so happy. I didn't really know what was going to happen, and I just had tears in my eyes, I was just so, so happy.

  Petra Kvitova

  Eye, Trying, Littles

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• If you tear open our heart, you will only see Rahul Gandhi...like Hanuman

  Pramod Tiwari

  Heart, Hanuman, Ifs

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• No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it's the last thing you picture before you fall asleep. Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail: You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That's how real a dream can be and should be)

  James C. Collins

  Success, Dream, Morning

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• I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes; nor would I be content with converting my tears, invited by my agonized self, into calm. It is my fervent hope that my whole life on this earth will ever be tears and laughter. Tears that purify my heart and reveal to me the secret of life and its mystery, Laughter that brings me closer to my fellow men; Tears with which I join the broken-hearted, Laugher that symbolizes joy over my very existence.

  Khalil Gibran

  Laughter, Heart, Men

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• He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

  John Selden

  Dog, Hurt, Play

  John Selden (1800). “The Table-talk: Of John Selden, Esq. Being His Sense of Various Matters of Weight and High Consequence; Relating Especially to Religion and State”, p.75

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• Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

  Anna Wintour

  Moments, Vogue, Barbara

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• You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose.
  There's a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold
  Just that something so good just can't function no more.
  When love, love will tear us apart again.

  Ian Curtis

  Sleep, Confusion, Taste

  "So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks".

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• Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Sorry, Feelings

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• As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, Father, Character

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.39, Stanford University Press

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• Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.

  Anne Frank

  Thinking, Suffering, Facts

  Anne Frank (2010). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.157, Anchor

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• This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Issues, National Security

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• This democracy of ours, which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us not tear it asunder, for no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when he will find its protective warmth again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Democracy, Sometimes

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• Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

  Florence King

  Football, Laughter, Healing

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.140, Macmillan

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• It's okay not to be okay... Sometimes it's hard, to follow your heart but tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, there's nothing wrong with who you are.

  Jessie J

  Heart, Mean, Losing

  Song: Who You Are

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• The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.

  Charles Kettering

  Peace, War, Future

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• Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

  William Wordsworth

  Baby, Fall, Sleep

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.491

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• This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English - it is a problem for the Department of Justice. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Philosophy, Power, White

  Speech at a Florida Republican dinner, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 28, 1970.

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• I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.

  Boethius

  Music, Song, Real

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up: 'I got things to do today, people to see, things to say.' I wrote about a dozen verses for it, but no song needs to be that long unless you're Bob Dylan. So when we recorded it I started to tear it down to some of the lines I thought were the funniest.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

  Oliver Sacks

  Moving, Orange Juice, Inspirational Music

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• Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own. Just shadows, lamb-white hands beneath black robes spun of tears, glide among the celebrants on this night wherein the spirits of Thebes have found a home, if serendipitously.

  Janet Morris

  Beach, Home, Fate

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.176, Paradise Publishing

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• Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sympathy, Selfish, Hunting

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• War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.

  Aberjhani

  War, Land, Mind

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.1, Lulu.com

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