Torn Quotes - Page 3

• Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all the fascists and their supporters in Mexico, Argentina, Eastern Europe, and the Arab world. Instead, those in jackboots and armbands worldwide quietly stowed all their emblems away as organized fascism died on the vine once the roots were torn out in Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo. So too will the terrorists, once their sanctuaries and capital shrivel up - as is happening as we speak.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Weed, Roots, Japan

  4 Copy quote

• I feel bad because I haven't been able to say anything to the fans to let them know why I've been absent. I'm torn as I'm quite private. I'm not feeling well. I'm having some health issues. So please keep me in your prayers.

  Avril Lavigne

  Prayer, Issues, Feelings

  "Avril Lavigne Asks Fans To #PrayForAvril While Suffering From Mystery Illness" by Jessica Hyndman, www.mtv.com. December 09, 2014.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

  Andy Rooney

  Distance, Silence, Desire

  8 Copy quote

• The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

  Alexis Carrel

  Dark, Dust, Cities

  4 Copy quote

• We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God

  Nicholas Wolterstorff

  Sight, Tears, Answers

  8 Copy quote

• So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind ourselves to the needs of our children and harden our hearts against them, we will continue to feel torn, dissatisfied, and exhausted…. The guilt we feel for neglecting our children is a byproduct of our love for them. It keeps us from straying too far from them, for too long. Their cry should be more compelling than the call from the office.

  Danielle Crittenden

  Children, Heart, Long

  Danielle Crittenden (2009). “What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Years, Albums, Too Much

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Midst, Difficulty

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.478, Manonmani Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whenever someone calls me a Pollyanna, I consider it to be the highest of compliments. This courageous girl finds a community that has been torn apart with hate, fear, and pain and brings it love, courage and healing. Isn't that what our world today needs more than anything?

  Joe Tye

  Girl, Pain, Hate

  21 Copy quote

• The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs are constantly being rebuilt and torn down at the same time. Corals are the bricks, broken pieces of plant and animal skeletons the sand, and algal crusts and chemical cements the mortar. Reef growth is determined by the production, accumulation, and cementation of all this calcareous stuff into solid limestone.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Nature, Animal, Cities

  5 Copy quote

• I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

  William S. Burroughs

  Morning, Glasses, Lust

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am torn between the beauty of the natural world, which you see all around us, and the idea that some dumb tornado could blow a telephone pole onto my sweet Camaro.

  Werner Herzog

  Sweet, Blow, Ideas

  14 Copy quote

• Every nation needs two wings to fly. Any bird torn at the wings will never soar the skies.

  Suzy Kassem

  Sky, Wings, Two

  "Truth Is Crying" by Suzy Kassem, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

  Cesare Borgia

  Eden

  29 Copy quote

• The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.

  Joseph Campbell

  Goal, Energy, Riding

  18 Copy quote

• Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one years ago and now we come back at last to the ancient capital Peking. In this season of falling flowers I read your beautiful poems. Be careful not to be torn inside. Open your vision to the world. Don't say that waters of Kumming Lake are too shallow. We can watch fish better here than in the Fuchun River in the south.

  Mao Zedong

  Beautiful, Flower, Fall

  9 Copy quote

• Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and our country's national anthem.' This is always an uncomfortable moment for me. While I sat at my laptop, most of the reporters around me stood and put their hands over their hearts. This time instead of just sitting and working, I tweeted what I was feeling: 'Ari_Shapiro: As a reporter I'm torn about joining in the pledge of allegiance/national anthem at rallies. I'm a rally observer, not a participant.'

  Ari Shapiro

  Country, Monday, Heart

  4 Copy quote

• The land on which they (the Founding Fathers) formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class. This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we’ve torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But it’s ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Lying, Father, Hands

  26 Copy quote

• A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

  Edvard Grieg

  Clouds, Greek, Church

  Edvard Grieg, Finn Benestad (2000). “Letters to colleagues and friends”, Peer Gynt Pr

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Faithful, Records

  4 Copy quote

• Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green, to black. If left long enough in the heat the flesh comes to resemble coal-tar, especially where it has been broken or torn, and it has quite a visible tarlike iridescence. The dead grow larger each day until sometimes they become quite too big for their uniforms, filling these until they seem blown tight enough to burst. The individual members may increase in girth to an unbelievable extent and faces fill as taut and globular as balloons.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Yellow, White

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and his own historic culture. His problems, sharpened by years of defeat and exploitation, neglect and inadequate effort, will take many years to overcome.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, White Man, Years

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.336, Best Books on

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I grew up having to care what people think; it was part of my job.I've been built up and torn down, built up and torn down. It's been difficult to tune people out, especially in the las few years. Now i'm starting to care more about me and not what everybody else thinks.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  4 Copy quote

• This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity-for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race. (13th February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Religious, War

  7 Copy quote

• The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart; and if anyone persists in doing so, he gets for his trouble only imperfect and confused fragments. Yet they do not arrive all together, but they hold each other by the hand so that they follow one another in a natural order which it is dangerous to change, because they refuse to enter in any other way where they are called.

  Marin Mersenne

  Confused, Science, Hands

  6 Copy quote