Torn Quotes - Page 14

• I came from a war-torn country and I was a victim of that racism because within tribes, within political lines, people were fighting. The first thing that I like to fight is racism because I know what it means, how it destroys the fabric of my society, of my wellbeing.

  Pearl Tan

  Country, War, Mean

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• 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.

  Paul Auster

  Father, Important, Looks

  Interview with Wayne Gooderham, www.timeout.com.

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• 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.

  Jack Herer

  Quality, Rags, Paper

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• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Bird, Parent

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• Marg Helgenberger and I were waitresses in the same restaurant in Evanston, Illinois. I'm happy to say that that restaurant has since been torn down. [...] We both had an audition for ABC soaps - different soaps, but we auditioned at the same time, and she got the part and went off to New York. Three years later, I went to L.A. So she was kind of an inspiration to me. And it makes sense that we will both be in Wonder Woman together, because we ARE Wonder Women.

  Virginia Madsen

  New York, Inspiration, Illinois

  "Virginia Madsen Is Wonder Woman's Queen Hipolyta". movieweb.com. January 07, 2009.

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• I seem to have been cast several several times to do it. I think in this one, Phoenix is not purely evil. She was in the comic books at some point but the way the writers created her or we always talked about her, was that she was torn with her powers taking over and trying to control them at the same time. It was challenging to play which made it interesting for me to play this character.

  Famke Janssen

  Book, Character, Thinking

  "The Phoenix Rises as Famke Janssen and James Marsden Talk X-Men: The Last Stand". Interview, movieweb.com. May 23, 2006.

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• I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Stars, Children, Believe

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.263, Vintage

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Excess, Moderation

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• What should really be happening is a revolution. The system should be torn apart by the people and banks shouldn't be allowed to do what they do, and giant corporations shouldn't be allowed to run the world to the ground the way they're doing. But that's not happening for whatever reason.

  Michael Shannon

  Running, People, Giants

  Source: variety.com

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• 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.

  Kurt Cobain

  Song, Writing, Torn Apart

  Interview with Frank Andrick, www.artistwd.com.

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• Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Death, Grief, Grieving

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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

  Neal Shusterman

  Reflection, Self, Torn Apart

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Full Tilt”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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

  Suzy Kassem

  Love, Tears, Lift You Up

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• Only a smile
  can make the tears dissapear

  Mario

  Smile, Tears

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• What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tears, Forests, Opinion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378

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• I'd go back and hang out with Isaac Newton. I'm torn between do I hang out with him or do I bring him into the present to hang out with me. See, that might be terrifying because his head will just explode once he sees everything that was derived from his discoveries, but I'd spend more time with someone who I think is one of the most brilliant minds our species has ever known.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Discovery, Mind

  "A Sense of Wonder: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ann Druyan on Cosmos: A Spacetime Journey!". Interview with bloggers and journalists, eclipsemagazine.com. June 08, 2014.

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• 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.

  Gary Zukav

  Moving, Joy, Soul

  Source: www.williamjames.com

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• What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling.We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.

  Tony Abbott

  Stress, War, People

  "Sticking to our Plan: two year anniversary of the Abbott Government". Joint Doorstop Interview, Canberra, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. September 7, 2015.

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

  Joseph Stalin

  Eye, Past, Men

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Butterfly, Wings, White

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

  Michael Chabon

  Fire, Dust, Broken

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Littles, Kingdoms, Revolution

  Samuel Johnson, A.F. Neuwieller (1857). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.71

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

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Doe, Half

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• Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.

  Janet Fitch

  Dream, Pain, Sick

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Struggle, Justice, Locks

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