Tears Quotes - page 41

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. (Jesse Jackson)
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. View quote
Jesse Jackson
Mary sheds tears because men call her "The Mother of God." View quote
Jack T. Chick
If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears. View quote
Gillian Schieber Flynn
There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick. View quote
Gillian Schieber Flynn
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Oh it tears me up I try to hold on but it hurts too much I try to forgive, but it's not enough to make it all okay. View quote
James Morrison (singer)
I read the last Harry Potter, and I cried for at least the last 70 pages. Awful! I was curled into a ball and I just kept sobbing. It was embarrassing. I was loud, and I just kept wiping tears away so I could see the page. View quote
Jesmyn Ward
Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: 'Lou, you're a leading man because you're a good actor.' Brought tears to my eyes. View quote
Lou Diamond Phillips
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. View quote
George McGovern
Sometimes tears make more good than laughter. (Pedro Muñoz Seca)
The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight. View quote
Persius
Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. View quote
George Orwell
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. View quote
Charles Péguy
Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume. View quote
Sacha Guitry
We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough. We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you in a clear voice: Enough. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes? View quote
Pablo Neruda
I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me. View quote
Albert Camus
Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face. View quote
Albert Camus
When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears. View quote
Brad Pitt
Circumstance is a factory of tears. (P. L. Deshpande)
Only humans can cry tears. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
The blood, sweat, tears, and suffering of Black people are the foundations of the wealth and power of the United States of America. We were forced to build America, and if forced to, we will tear it down. View quote
Huey P. Newton
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again; and we bear to go on with our labour, what it may be. View quote
Bram Stoker