Top 1200 Torn Apart Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

I'm usually torn by, 'What's the role of government to cure injustice?' Families, churches, and schools can be more of an instrument of change.

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

By the very nature of being a clergyman's son, people tend to put you slightly apart, which is - you tend to live a life, at some stages, as being - people being suspicious of you and puts you rather on a - I don't mean lonely, particularly. But it does tend to put you apart.

I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so I came back licking my wounds to New York, where I live, and started to write a script about a protagonist for whom the exact same thing happened: His life was falling apart.

Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work - supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take that cat apart to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a non-working cat. The cat wasn't a sort of clunky mechanism that was susceptible to our available tools of analysis.

The proper focus of holiness is not on being set apart from something (i.e., the world), but on being set apart for something.

O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

We are torn between 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.

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

When you're a teenager, you don't want to look different. So being very tall can set you apart, not being able to see very well can set you apart... and you just want to fit in. We all do.

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

I just believe that you have to allow each other to grow in the way you're meant to grow and not be afraid of losing that person, because if you grow apart, then you grow apart, and that's the way it was meant to be.

My shirt got torn in a fight. Yours evidently has a fast-release tab.

My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn.

One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking it apart - but only in the service of a character or story that deserves it. Another path I often employ is to put form into "play" - to set it free from its ordinary constraints and let it be free-floating and broken-apart and rearranged.

Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

There were times when close people... Some of my closest friends have left me. People hurt me, so everything fell apart. I didn't feel like I had anyone on my side or anyone who could understand me. So that's why I completely fell apart.

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

I may wear sizzling costumes on screen or on the ramp, but back home, I love to be in my torn jeans and sneakers.

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

No matter how your world falls apart-and honey, that's what happens: we all build ourselves a world, and then it falls apart-but no matter how that happens, you still have the kind heart you've had since you were a child, and that's all that really counts.

I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists. I feel that musicians do it their own way, write their own songs and put on a great live shows.

When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich?

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

I always expect people to be torn when they see one of my films and divided in some way.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.

I like to believe I play tragic heroes - characters that are torn between the good and bad, the black and the white.

It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

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.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!

A lot of mums are torn between their work and missing out on important milestones in their children's lives.

That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.