The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.
To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.
What's that?" "The laundry basket?" "No, next to it." "I don't see anything next to it." "It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.
If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.
When you look at me, tease my desire with a mere gaze, it shreds the edges of my soul…
Choose wisely From those who start A fire in your heart. Some may burn you to shreds, While you were looking for warmth.
My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.
Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.
Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into an eye for our child, or I and my dear wife will tear you into shreds.
Transferring my anger and pain onto paper turns it into something tangible, something that can be shredded or burned, or at the very least, sealed shut in a box. ~Call Me Tuesday
There was never a shred, never a hint, never a possibility - not a remote, not a million-, not a billion-to-one possibility - I could have planted anything. Nor would I have a reason to.
Wisdom of the Ages: "Ferguson Riots" They were ready to tear America to shreds over their grief-right until the TV cameras left to cover the football games.
Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of doing that to someone else. I can't be the agent of causing someone to go to prison.
I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred of hope in everything I've written 'cause I like that balance.
I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.
I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!
Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together. And of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches. - How to make an American Quilt
We came upon a massacre at the Shrine of Prometheus. The humans were ripped to shreds. There was no one ieft alive to say what happened, said Eros.
