How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us - are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.
I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.
I've got to show at all times that I'm willing to tear any emcee a new asshole, at any given moment.
Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.
I'll put out an album, and people review it, and some people love it, and some people tear it apart. By nature of the project, I've always wanted this to be something where people react strongly to it.
No one should ever preach on the topic of hell without a tear in his eye.
War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is. . . not the way.
The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces.
Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest
It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.
I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.
I watched my head rolling on the floor. It landed face up and a big tear came out of one eye.
We all acknowledge there are some things that need to be torn down and removed, but it seems to me that a leader who removes something must be able to recognize the necessity of replacing it with something that is effective and sustainable - so you don't just tear down, you have to build up.
I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.
Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle
Tear to a glass eye. Tear to a glass eye.