Top 328 Tearing Quotes & Sayings

There is no path to middle-class prosperity without tearing down barriers to American exports.

A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then.

So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.

(The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.

Usually, when you're taking over a team, you're restructuring, you're tearing it down, you're building it up again.

A competitive culture endures by tearing people down.

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Tell me what you need." "You," she said simply, that one word tearing to the very heart of him. "Just you.

Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.

I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

Mobs in the street tearing down Ulysses S. Grant statues is a really chilling sight.

I reject the mobs tearing down statues of our history - north and south, Union and Confederate, founding fathers and veterans.

Living is like tearing through a museum.

Most of the people that I've worked with when shooting films that I really respect, there is a point which you do become obsessed in a good way. And because it's a collaborative medium, you're not by yourself in a room tearing your hair out, you're in a room with a bunch of people. And we're all tearing our hairs out, or trying to get something right, or caring deeply about something. But that's fun.

I love tearing people's speakers up.

There's a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.

At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm.

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Never build yourself up by tearing another down.

Food rules. Little rivals the pleasure of tearing into a glistening burger.

Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening.

It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

My parents tried to convince me that school won't always be there, but auditions will. I said, 'Really? Are they tearing down NYU?'

I think coming out, for me, is really about tearing down the prison wall.

On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.

Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols

Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans.

You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart.

My office is committed to tearing down unlawful barriers to voting to ensure that all eligible voters are able to freely cast a ballot.

Reading nice stuff about you is lovely, but I know it's going to be soul-destroying when you do something that everyone is tearing apart.

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.

If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.

You're tearing me apart!

I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material.

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

Tearing apart a community, a business, and a family will make America worse off, every time.

President Trump is tearing apart the moral fabric of this country.

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.

Theres a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.