Top 1200 Torn Apart Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons.

Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart.

I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood - or the foul kitchen of a diner (Help Wanted) in a dismal ex-prairie state, with the wind blowing, and the stars blinking, and the cars, and the bars, and the barmen, and everything soiled, torn, dead.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.

Our entire family is shy. Apart from film promotions, we do not believe in staying in the limelight.

Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you inventory your leaves for the sun? You did none of these things, yet man in his cleverness Cannot match your perfection.

Posh people blow my mind. Apart from empathy, they're good at everything - true survivalists.

I don't think I spoke to anyone apart from my daughter for the first two years of her life.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.

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

Every single player on the pitch is now in the Birmingham box, apart from two of them.

Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.

Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.

I can't smell moth balls, I find it too difficult to get their tiny legs apart

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point of view.

When two people break up, it's all about them; they can't see anyone else. And the people getting smashed to bits are the kids. Then you're getting torn - your mum wants you, your dad wants you. You just get shredded. It has a long-lasting effect as well.

Eddie and I have decided to take some time apart. I want to do what is best for our children.

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.

It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.

We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.

Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart.

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.

The one thing that gives you faith is the fact that people can be apart physically but they can still have an emotional connection.

My mum and dad were together 55 years, I don't think they spent a day apart.

Obviously I am not bothered about men's fashion - is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross?

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.

Once I catch you and the kissing starts, a team of wild horses couldn't tear us apart.

Especially in these times of austerity and the world feels like it's falling apart, it's good for people to have a laugh.

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Korea to Haiti and Beirut to Sri Lanka, and the question came up: What does this man have to offer to this world which seems so torn up and so attached to conflict?

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.

In some states, it is illegal to turn down a same-sex couple when you're placing children for adoption. That's discrimination. But in the Catholic church, the sacrament of marriage is defined officially as the union of a man and a woman. So a Catholic adoption agency is torn between its faith doctrine and what it sees as a faith obligation to help orphans.

It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

In a sea of millions of people, you really have to set yourself apart to make a statement.

I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the gospel of compassion and kindness and please, always use a condom, from famine-stricken nations to war-torn dead zones. It's possible I might become a nun who kisses other nuns.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

I know that human beings are better together than they are apart, as much as I fought that all my life.