Torn Quotes - Page 11

• It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Beautiful, Memories, Spring

  Derrick Belanger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “A Study in Terror: Volume 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural”, p.203, Andrews UK Limited

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• Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it, willing to be broken, torn out of the flesh, but able to return to it. Someone must be able to shatter the tragic from within and exit into comedy, able to rip a hole so wide that a train of souls, a parade, could follow after, banging drums and throwing candy as they strolled into the sun.

  N.D. Wilson

  Rip, Turtles, Broken

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• Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Catholic, Unity, Shepherds

  "Mass, Imposition of the Pallium And Conferral of the Fisherman's Ring For the Beginning of the Petrine Ministry Of the Bishop of Rome". Speech by Pope Benedict XVI at the St. Peter's Square, w2.vatican.va. April 24, 2005.

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• Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Cities

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• Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.

  Diana Peterfreund

  Hurt, Pain, Two

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• In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?

  Wayne Muller

  Death, Powerful, Grief

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• A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

  Don Drysdale

  Baby, Cancer, Cuffs

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• It's not that I haven't given it (turning pro) careful thought, it's just that I am torn as to which course I should take. There is no need to rush. I won't be consulting anybody about this and I will do things my own way.

  Shizuka Arakawa

  Needs, Way, Should

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• The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Unique, Feelings, Immature

  "Essays on Elizabethan Drama".

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• The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

  Jurgen Habermas

  War, Years, Misery

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, September 1, 2004.

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• That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.

  Livy

  Spring, Heart, Maturity

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• This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Play, Fans

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• The real question today is not when human life begins, but, what is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles the arms and legs of a tiny baby to make sure all its parts have been torn from its mother's body can hardly doubt whether it is a human being. The real question for him and for all of us is whether that tiny human life has a God-given right to be protected by the law - the same right we have.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Mother, Baby

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Stars, Spring

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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• Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

  George Iles

  Truth, Science, Errors

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

  Catullus

  Love, Hate, Two

  Gaius Valerius Catullus (1983). “The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition”, p.197, Univ of California Press

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• When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on your side in your struggle to do what's right and ethical. In fact, sometimes even you won't be on your side. You'll wrestle with inner conflict, torn between what you should do and what you want to do. You'll also aggravate other people. Seems when you walk the straight and narrow you always step on someone's toes. Don't count on the ethics of excellence to make you popular.

  Price Pritchett

  Struggle, Your Side, People

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• I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best beloved; I killed him who loved me with an everlasting love. Oh eyes, why do you refuse to weep when you see Jesus' body mangled and torn? Give vent to your sorrow, Christians, for you have good reason to do so.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Friday, Jesus

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.279, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself.

  Sandra Worth

  Regret, Tears, Stories

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• I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.

  Owen Hart

  Running, Retirement, Ideas

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• A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!

  Niall Horan

  Football, Retirement, Squirrels

  "One Direction's Niall Horan blames squirrel for knee injury" by Tom Eames, www.digitalspy.com. October 07, 2012.

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• From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or - better still - torn to pieces by the German people themselves.

  Winston Churchill

  Years, People, Germany

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• Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

  Paulo Coelho

  Might, Today, Equal

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 19, 2014

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• Our great Constitution has been beaten and torn until now it hangs by a single thread, and that thread is our franchise to vote.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Constitution, Vote, Thread

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• It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Hurt, Phoenix

  "A hunger for books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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