Rip Quotes - Page 5

• Yes, I'm a small, emaciated teenage girl who struts around fighting vampires in earrings they would rip out of my ears and shove up my —

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Teenage, Fighting

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.43, Macmillan

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• Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil--only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Opposites, People, Evil

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• The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Shadow, Tools, Use

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.124, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Killing rips the soul apart.

  J. K. Rowling

  Soul, Killing

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• That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

  Justina Chen

  Reality, Garden, Chaos

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• He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Feels

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• Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges, soon," said I Proud 'neath heated brow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth "Rip down all hate," I screamed Lies that life is black and white Spoke from my skull. I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers Foundationed deep, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

  Bob Dylan

  Lying, Hate, Black And White

  Song: My Back Pages

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• We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as fiesty; we are thickly layered, page upon lying page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Life, Sweet

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• I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt. I pushed my fingertip through the hole and wiggled it at myself. Hello, Dexter, where are you going? Hello, Mr. Finger. I don't know, but I'm almost there. I hear my friends calling.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Beautiful, Heart, Rose

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.200, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• When I thought of Eric with someone else, I wanted to rip out all his beautiful blonde hair. By the roots. In clumps.

  Charlaine Harris

  Beautiful, Hair, Roots

  Charlaine Harris (2011). “Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.27, Penguin

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• A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my left arm flings downcanyon, opening my shoulders to the south, and I fall back against the northern wall of the canyon, my mind is surfing on euphoria. As I stare at the wall where not twelve hours ago I etched “RIP OCT 75 ARON APR 03,” a voice shouts in my head: I AM FREE!

  Aron Ralston

  Wall, Fall, Voice

  Aron Ralston (2004). “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Basis of the Motion Picture 127 Hours”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.

  Jodi Picoult

  Letting Go, Pain, Hands

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it's their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin' party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only way to prevent it—with chickens—is to clip blinders on them. So's they can't see.

  Ken Kesey

  Couple, Party, Sight

  Ken Kesey (2002). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (SparkNotes Literature Guide)”, SparkNotes

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• The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.

  Tim Cook

  Names, World, Given

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• I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Hurt, Heart, Hands

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Swings, Speech, Want

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• As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.

  Fred Durst

  People, Band, Want

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• And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so much pain and still survive.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Pain, Soul, Ink

  Lisa Kleypas (2007). “Mine Till Midnight”, p.169, Macmillan

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• There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Animal, Years, Skins

  "Natalie Imbruglia Speaks Out Against Fur in New PETA Video" by Anne Clark, www.peta.org.uk. September 9, 2010.

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• My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?

  Jim Butcher

  Friday, Fun, Heart

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.128, Penguin Group

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• My government currently runs things only because the people 'allow' them to run things. It is my responsibility that I do everything I can to keep tabs on my government, keep them honest and make sure that they always act for the good of the people. They must be reminded that they hold no power over the people that the people do not wish for them to hold. If the government begins working in a way that the people don't agree with, they must be made to know that we will rip it to its very foundations and replace it with something that does.

  Derek R. Audette

  Running, Responsibility, Government

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• They're working their way down. Next year, Todd Bridges gets the award. When I was a kid I wanted to be Eddie Murphy and now I'm a rip-off of Eddie Murphy.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Kids

  "Kids Choose Green Day as Favorite Band". www.foxnews.com. April 2, 2006.

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• How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?

  Thornton Wilder

  Hate, House, Doubt

  "Fictional character: Uncle Charlie Oakley". "Shadow of a Doubt", en.wikiquote.org. 1943.

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• Fascism is the most inherently evil political ideology that man has ever devised. Wherever we see even the smallest sapling of fascism growing, we should use every just, reasonable and humane method at our disposal to rip-it out by its roots and then salt the very earth wherein it grew, so that no other such thing may ever again take root. Of course, we must also take great care to ensure that during this process, we ourselves do not become fascists in the fight against fascism.

  Derek R. Audette

  Fighting, Men, Roots

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• On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Mother, Chance, Telling The Truth

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