Tear Quotes - page 4

You, mad to expect repentance, Tear your robe all you want; I will never repent! (Abu Nuwas)
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. View quote
Antonio Porchia
I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. View quote
Muriel Rukeyser
To those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. View quote
Barack Obama
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder. View quote
Barack Obama
The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs. Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it! View quote
Arthur Miller
The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new, but to the continuous evolution of zoologic types which develop ceaselessly and end by becoming unrecognizable to the common sight, but where an expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the centuries past. One must not think then that the old-fashioned theories have been sterile or vain. View quote
Henri Poincaré
For every laugh, there should be a tear. View quote
Walt Disney
In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it. (Abraham Lincoln)
Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says How nice to see children running on the grass The second tear says How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch. View quote
Milan Kundera
If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905. View quote
Albert Einstein
Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues. View quote
Edward Abbey
This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. View quote
Markus Zusak
They signed the unwind order just to spite each other, but laugh, laugh, laugh, Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart worse than a Chop Shop. View quote
Neal Shusterman
They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Souls bound together can't be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death. View quote
Patti Callahan Henry
Monsters,' her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. 'I live in a world of monsters. View quote
Rick Riordan
Her hair is smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arms, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful. (Rick Riordan)
Her perfume was a mixture of roses and tear gas. View quote
Rick Riordan
Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady." A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight." Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again. View quote
Rick Riordan
You can't buy time, Nick. Ever. It's the only thing in life you can't get most of, and it's the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it's gone. It takes no pity on no soul and no heart. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families. View quote
Junot Diaz