quotes about Torn
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Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
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We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that
-- Denis Johnson -
Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.
-- Erica Jong -
If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.
-- George W. Bush -
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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
-- Ian McewanSource : "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
-- Iggy Pop -
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
-- John F. Kennedy -
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
-- John James Audubon -
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
-- Lucretius -
Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
-- Michel de CerteauSource : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.107, Univ of California Press
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As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
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You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.
-- Steven Brust -
Rip Torn had, like, lessons in everything he said, and one of them was, "I know that an actor can undermine anything a director tells him to do by making fun of it." And he thought that that's what I did.
-- John HeardSource : Source: tv.avclub.com