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Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out. -- Jim Carrey
Tearing your clothes, burning your books and torturing yourself only prove that you are nothing but a wild creature. -- M.F. Moonzajer
A frightening menagerie, my emotions are Too many and varied to number Like creatures they crawl and they fly above Tearing my body asunder. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling at murderous speed. Tearing through it all in a very, very bad inreparable way. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat for support in the swaying car. 'Tearing back and forth across the city in their underground caves, devouring people and spitting them out at random destinations. -- Regina Doman
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. -- Emile M. Cioran
Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work. -- Ann Rule
Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension. -- Sri Chinmoy
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. -- Jack Henry Abbott
Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse. -- Ann Landers
The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land. -- Stockwell Day
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. -- Cynthia Nixon
Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure. -- Greg Graffin
Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center. -- Eddie Van Halen
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. -- Kevin Costner
I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable. -- Dawn French
I do tend to be an analyzer. 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. -- Cynthia Nixon
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.' -- Harmon Killebrew
Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing. -- Joel Edgerton
There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies. -- Iyanla Vanzant
We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you. -- Joel Osteen
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once. -- Audrey Hepburn
I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication. -- Susan Orlean
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. -- Elfriede Jelinek
Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity. -- Betty White
We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. -- David R. Brower
Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed. -- Drake
Despite all the public hand-wringing about negative advertising, political veterans will tell you that it persists because, more often than not, it works. But tearing down the other guy has another attraction: It can be a substitute for building much of a case for what the mudslinger will do once in office. -- Robert Dallek
The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go. -- Sharon Stone
You're tearing me apart! -- James Dean
Living is like tearing through a museum. -- Audrey Hepburn
Never build yourself up by tearing another down. -- Larry Winget
A competitive culture endures by tearing people down. -- Jules Henry
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. -- Abraham Lincoln
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men. -- William J. H. Boetcker
In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis. -- Samuel Alexander
I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked. -- Adam Yauch
You cannot help the small men, by tearing down the big men. -- William J. H. Boetcker
I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution -- Aja Monet
Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then. -- Jerry Lee Lewis
Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing. -- Alice Munro
I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality. -- Steven Ramirez
So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle. -- Prince Philip
Theres a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart. -- Michael Shanks
And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony. -- Eminem
His strength kept me moving forward, and it was also tearing me apart. -- Rebecca Donovan
There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws. -- William Golding
Moms, let's pledge to build each other up instead of tearing each other down. -- Lysa TerKeurst
At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm. -- Edwin Markham
Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up? -- Sean Covey
On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed. -- William Blake
Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.... -- Ken Keyes Jr.
Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside. -- Steven Herrick
Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains.... -- Rumi
Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun. -- Anthony Kiedis
I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good. -- Lou Reed
I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together. -- Saadat Hasan Manto
How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph! -- Jules Renard
Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul -- Rumi
The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind. -- Theodore Roethke
Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down. -- Myles Munroe
You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down -- Abraham Lincoln said it. -- John Kasich
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me. -- Carter Burwell
All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels. -- Francois Fenelon
If you're tearing around in a panic about something, then it puts everyone else in a panic as well. -- Julie Andrews
Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
For some, excavating the past isn't an adventure, it's more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound. -- Raquel Cepeda
I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene. -- Emily Blunt
It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it. -- Jon Ronson
In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings. -- Ken Schoolland
I love finding songs, going through them, tearing them apart, and seeing if I can find anything wrong with them. -- Randy Travis
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. -- George Orwell
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. -- Pam Brown
Tell me what you need." "You," she said simply, that one word tearing to the very heart of him. "Just you. -- Maya Banks
For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. -- Jack Henry Abbott
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. -- Madonna Ciccone
Win if you can, lose if you must, always cheat, and if you have to leave the ring, leave tearing it down. -- Sputnik Monroe
Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols -- Michael Harner
You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart. -- Seth
Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority. -- William J. Clinton
A wolf is not bad for eating and tearing apart something, if it's for survival. It doesn't do it to be menacing. -- Jason Momoa
You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away. -- Mary Jo Bang
Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god. -- Ridley Scott
Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly, and all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony! -- Eminem
Am you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the Eurozone. -- Michael Hudson
I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first. -- Ted Turner
Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what is tearing it apart. -- Joan D. Chittister
Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century. -- Mark Twain
corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fabric, ripping it apart culturally and economically. -- Arundhati Roy
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair. -- Gioachino Rossini
It was like something lurking in the darkness within him...There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then being silent. -- D. H. Lawrence
Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live. -- Holmes Rolston III
All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down. -- Ken Kesey
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. -- Joni Mitchell
The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown -- Simon Hughes
Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity. -- William Loughton Smith
I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship. -- Joseph Conrad
What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down. -- Patrick Ness
When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth. -- Joseph Mitchell
I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect. -- Sandra Bullock
Saga of Tristan and Danika. The battles and the victories. The defeats and the triumphs. The tragedies and the trials. Somewhere in the middle, I had him tearing up," -- R.K. Lilley
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... -- Charles Dickens
By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act. -- John Ashcroft
What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else. -- Trent Reznor
I'm always calling my doctor because I'm constantly injuring myself while on the road, like tearing a ligament, blasting my ears or losing my voice. Plus, I'm a total hypochondriac. -- Mika
At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied. -- Adeline Yen Mah
I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish. -- Andy Rooney
The ripping and tearing of an unborn child from his mother's womb through the hands of another, and we say, "That's fine; you have a constitutional right to do that." -- Tom Coburn
There's a glee in building a world that is constructed on corporate synergy and all the luxuries of our modern life, and then just tearing it apart. I enjoy that! -- Colin Trevorrow
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
I like making fun of myself a lot. I like being made fun of, too. I've always enjoyed it. There's just something really, really funny about someone tearing into me. -- John Mulaney
Magnus wants to shout at me, donâ??t you, Magnus?â? (Jace) â??Yes,â? Magnus said, tearing his eyes away from Alec long enough to scowl. -pg.275- -- Cassandra Clare
I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September. -- Shawn Johnson
You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning. -- Rod Serling
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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