Torn Quotes - Page 13

• We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is - on the brink of catastrophe - torn by polarizing hate, and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Hate, Working Together

  Keynote Address at the Rally to Restore Sanity, delivered 30 October 2010, Washington Mall

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• 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.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Photography, Drawing, Pieces

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

  Doug Stanhope

  Baby, War, Excuse You

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

  Ian Mcewan

  People, Novelists, Vulnerable

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

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• 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.

  Katie Aselton

  Thinking, Opposites, Different

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It wouldn't bring her back. I know. Trust me, I do. And I would have done far worse, he says, if I'd thought there was a way to bring Regina back. I would have traded places. I would have sold souls. I would have torn this world apart. I would have done anything, broken any rule, just to bring her back.

  V. E. Schwab

  Broken, Soul, Done

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• 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.

  Jud Wilhite

  Pain, Book, Moving Forward

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• 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.

  James Patterson

  Emotional, Fiction, Torn Apart

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• To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciate, Noble, Literature

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• The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

  Black Elk

  Country, Fall, Moon

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• 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

  War, Long, Romance

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• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Sky, Feelings, Harmony

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

  Anthony Burgess

  Fashion, Men, Novelty

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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

  Patti Callahan Henry

  Distance, Forever, Soul

  Patti Callahan Henry (2006). “When Light Breaks”, p.63, Penguin

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• Love is a hard rock between two people and can't be torn apart

  Lillian Gish

  Valentines Day, Flower, Love Is

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• What would have happened if Derrick Rose had torn his knee in college, or Greg Oden? It would have cost them millions of dollars. They were lucky, coming out early. I'm not saying don't go to college. There are plenty of players like Shaq [O'Neal] who went back and graduated. I commend that. But do it at your leisure - don't hurt your finances.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Hurt, Player, College

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did.

  Gerald Nicosia

  Mom, Hero, Book

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• I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Korea to Haiti and Beirut to Sri Lanka, and the question came up: What does this man have to offer to this world which seems so torn up and so attached to conflict?

  Pico Iyer

  War, Men, Sri Lanka

  "Reflects On Thirty Years Traveling with Tibet’s Exiled Leader". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• 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.

  Ed Wood

  Girl, Crazy, Drama

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

  Rufus Wainwright

  Artist

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• 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.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Together, Beats, Muscles

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• 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.

  Simon Sinek

  Country, War, America

  "Could Haiti Become A Terrorist Haven? Only America Can Decide" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2010.

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• 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.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Confused, Goes On, May

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Chapter One: "The Fear of Poetry", 1949.

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• It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves, all of them stripped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our very hearts out; yet the Lord by His almighty power preserved a number of us from death, for there were twenty-four of us taken alive and carried captive

  Mary Rowlandson

  Christian, Lying, Taken

  Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.10, Diderot Publishing

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• 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.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Veils, Might

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