Ripped Quotes

• Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, ‘Don’t risk it.’ Because it’s only when your heart has been ripped open that you get a chance to find the one person capable of making it whole.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Heart, Love Is, Risk

  Sabrina Jeffries (2012). “A Lady Never Surrenders”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm having a wonderful time in training. It's so funny because you go through ups and you go through downs. People have to realize that my career started on a down. I got ripped off a Gold Medal at the Olympics but it didn't stop me and it made me a better person.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Careers, People

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• The wind blowing through my ripped clothes was so cold that I felt like a Percysicle.

  Rick Riordan

  Wind, Clothes, Cold

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• That's the kind of thinking that our country needs. When we have a country that's doing so badly, that's being ripped off by every single country in the world, it's the kind of thinking that our country needs, because everybody, we have a trade deficit with all of the countries that we do business with, of almost $800 billion a year.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Years

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated" by Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Cause for a moment a band of theives in ripped up jeans got to rule the world!

  Taylor Swift

  Jeans, Band, World

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• The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

  Lisa Unger

  Leaving, Naked, Facade

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.24, Crown

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• There's this unspoken thing that you have to wear a tux and some kind of nice dress. There are all these ethical rules, but I'm sure if you came to the Oscars in ripped jeans and a t-shirt they wouldn't throw you out. You would just look like a fool.

  Glen Hansard

  Nice, Jeans, Dresses

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.

  Sarah Dessen

  Two, Pieces, Paper

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.96, Penguin

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• Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.

  Phyllis Diller

  Thinking, Romance, Pages

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• No fair! Those guys ripped off what we rightfully stole!

  Gordon Korman

  Guy, Fairs

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The Medusa Plot”, p.91, Scholastic Inc.

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• I swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all.

  Christian Bale

  Interesting, Protein, Bigger

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• My coach is, Look at Novak. Look at him. They're so ripped. I'm like, Yeah, well, I can't look like that.

  Ana Ivanovic

  Looks, Yeah, Wells

  Ana Ivanovic during BNP Paribas Open Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. March 10, 2012.

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• You could say that this book is ripped from the headlines, but that wouldn't be fair. Bret Anthony Johnston's riveting novel picks up where the tabloids leave off, and takes us places even the best journalism can't go. Remember Me Like This is a wise, moving, and troubling novel about family and identity, and a clear-eyed inventory of loss and redemption.

  Tom Perrotta

  Wise, Book, Moving

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• Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.

  Glen Duncan

  Sticks, Spontaneous, Strategy

  Glen Duncan (2002). “I, Lucifer”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.

  David Levithan

  Book, Together, Pages

  David Levithan (2008). “Wide Awake”, p.23, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Rule number one of anime," Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed, a bag of potato chips in one hand and the TV remote in the other. He was wearing a black T-shirt that said I BLOGGED YOUR MOM and a pair of jeans that were ripped in one knee. "Never screw with a blind monk.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Anime, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going’ Like a little lost Sputnik?’ I guess so.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Ideas, Space

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• Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

  Jodi Picoult

  Grief, Bereavement, Band

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

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• I hadn't fallen through his arms. He was ripped from mine.

  Kami Garcia

  Arms, Fallen, Mines

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• For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.

  Walker Percy

  Angel, Men, Self

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• THE WOMAN WAS GOING TO KILL HIM, and not because she was stronger and more vicious than he was. Which, if he thought about it, she was. He’d never ripped a man’s throat out with his teeth, and he was damned impressed that Gwen had. She’d made the Lords of the Underworld look like marshmallows.

  Gena Showalter

  Men, Stronger, Teeth

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Whisper”, p.38, HQN Books

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• Whenever you're looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey.

  Scott Adkins

  Training, Roles, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fireheart tensed, waiting for whatever had hunted down these apprentices to emerge from the trees and attack, but nothing stirred. Feeling as if his legs hardly belonged to him, he sprang down and stumbled across to Swiftpaw. The apprentice lay on his side, his legs splayed out. His black-and-white fur was torn, and his body was covered with dreadful wounds, ripped by teeth far bigger than any cat's. His jaws still snarled and his eyes glared. He was dead, and Fireheart could see that he had died fighting.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Eye, Fighting

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• If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!

  Richelle Mead

  Trying, Stories, Bleeding

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.145, Penguin

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• I dropped my voice and stared into her eyes. I could tell she was trying hard not to look away. I was so furious I could have cheerfully ripped her head off. "But you're going to find out, Mom,' I said very softly."And it's gonna give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life." Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do to not give a MWA HA HA!

  James Patterson

  Mom, Badass, Eye

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