Tear Quotes - page 18

No man would have torn himself from the comfort of a morning nap to listen to a minstrel in a jacket; none but a maid awakes to songs of love. (Honoré de Balzac)
A tear is a misfortune, a stain is a vice. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
.. we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile. View quote
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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. View quote
Ronald Reagan
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! View quote
Ronald Reagan
Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall! View quote
Ronald Reagan
In the years after I left Netflix, the company I co-founded, I didn't want to puff myself up or tear anyone else down. View quote
Marc Randolph
It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn. View quote
Melina Marchetta
Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart. View quote
Miuccia Prada
You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover. View quote
Nalini Singh
He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory. (Norton Juster)
Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn't sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped. View quote
Regina Brett
Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around. View quote
Raymond E. Feist
I wake up at 10. I have coffee, and then I spend a half an hour on the computer, where I read newspapers and progressive blogs. I have to tear myself away, or I'll spend all day reading. View quote
Andrew Sean Greer
We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion. View quote
Richard Flanagan
In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we. View quote
Simon Sinek
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. View quote
Ted Dekker
Every businessman, or every person who has a passion for his work, is torn for the time spent at work and the time spent with your family. View quote
Phil Knight
Death must simply become the discreet but dignified exit of a peaceful person from a helpful society that is not torn, not even overly upset by the idea of a biological transition without significance, without pain or suffering, and ultimately without fear. View quote
Philippe Aries
I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart. View quote
Francine Rivers
I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love. (Francine Rivers)
How can one talk in a classical language about a child who's torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People in Iraq don't talk about their joys, their problems, and the destruction of the country in literary diction. View quote
Hassan Blasim
I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked. View quote
Channing Tatum
We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and tear them apart? Or are we going think, like, listen - these people are here. We've got to deal with this reality. We've got to extend the franchise. View quote
Junot Diaz
i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time. View quote
David Levithan